Acrothinium

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Eumolpinae
Tribus: Bromiini
Genus: Acrothinium
Species (3): A. cupricolle – A. cyaneum – A. gaschkevitchii
Name

Acrothinium Marshall, 1865: 47

Type species: Chrysochus gaschkevitchii Motschulsky, 1861, by original designation.
References
Primary references

Marshall, T.A. 1865. Corynodinorum Recensio. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 8(29): 24–50. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1864.tb02004.x Paywall. BHL

Additional references

Moseyko, A.G. & Sprecher-Uebersax, E. 2010. Subfamily Eumolpinae Hope, 1840. Pp. 619–643. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. 924 pp. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. Google Books. Reference page.

Vernacular names
日本語: アカガネサルハムシ属

Acrothinium is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains three species, which are distributed in East Asia.[2]
Species

Acrothinium cupricolle Jacoby, 1888[3] – China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang)
Acrothinium cyaneum Chen, 1940 – China (Hainan)
Acrothinium gaschkevitchii (Motschulsky, 1861)
Acrothinium gaschkevitchii gaschkevitchii (Motschulsky, 1861) – China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang), Taiwan, Japan, South Korea[4]
Acrothinium gaschkevitchii matsuii Nakane, 1956 – Japan (Okinoerabu)
Acrothinium gaschkevitchii okinawense Nakane, 1985 – Japan (Okinawa)
Acrothinium gaschkevitchii shirakii Nakane, 1956 – Japan (Amami Ōshima, Okinawa)
Acrothinium gaschkevitchii tokaraense Nakane, 1956 – Japan (Tokara Islands)

Synonyms:

Acrothinium hirsutum Tan & Wang, 2005:[5] moved to Heterotrichus[6]
Acrothinium piffli Mandl, 1965: synonym of Colasposoma ornatum Jacoby, 1881[6]
Acrothinium violaceum Jacoby, 1889: synonym of Heterotrichus balyi Chapuis, 1874[7]

References

Marshall, T. A. (1864). "Corynodinorum Recensio". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 8 (29): 24–50. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1864.tb02004.x.
Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
Jacoby, M. (1888). "Descriptions of new species of phytophagous Coleoptera from Kiukiang (China)". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1888: 339–351. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1888.tb06712.x.
Cho, H.-W.; An, S.L. (2020). "An annotated checklist of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Korean Peninsula, with comments and new records". Far Eastern Entomologist. 404: 1–36. doi:10.25221/fee.404.1.
Tan, J.; Wang, S.; Zhou, H. (2005). 中国动物志 昆虫纲 (第四十卷) 鞘翅目 肖叶甲科 肖叶甲亚科 [Fauna Sinica. Insect Vol 40. Coleoptera. Eumolpidae. Eumolpinae] (PDF) (in Chinese). Beijing: Science Press. ISBN 7-03-014376-0.
Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "New nomenclatural and taxonomic acts, and comments. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 80–83. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
Medvedev, L. N. (2001). "Jacoby's types of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from Burma in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genoa. Part 1". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria". 93: 167–184.