Agetinella

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: incertae sedis
Genus: Agetinella
Species: A. minuta
Name

Agetinella Jacoby, 1908: 206

Type species: Agetinella minuta Jacoby, 1908, by monotypy.
References
Primary references

Jacoby, M. 1908. Descriptions of two new genera and species of Australian Eumolpini (Coleoptera Phytophaga). The Entomologist 41(537): 26–28. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.10159 Open access. BHL. Reference page.

Additional references

Reid, C.A.M. 1990. Systematics of the Australian Cryptocephalinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Ph.D., Canberra: Australian National University. DOI: 10.25911/5d723ed4eef6e, hdl: 1885/12539 Open access. [synonymized with Leasia in Cryptocephalinae (not a valid nomenclatural act)]
Seeno, T.N. & Wilcox, J.A. 1982. Leaf beetle genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomography 1: 1–221. Google Books (Snippet view only). Reference page. [incertae sedis placement]

Agetinella is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains only one species, Agetinella minuta, which is known from Swan River in Western Australia. The genus and species were first described by the German entomologist Martin Jacoby, in an article posthumously published in 1908. The genus was originally assigned to the tribe Eumolpini, but later leaf beetle classifications instead place it as incertae sedis within Eumolpinae.[2]

In a 1990 PhD thesis by Chris A.M. Reid, it was determined that Agetinella actually belonged to Cryptocephalinae, and is a synonym of Leasia.[3] Because the dissertation is considered to be unpublished according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, this nomenclatural act is not valid.
References

Jacoby, M. (1908). "Descriptions of two new genera and species of Australian Eumolpini (Coleoptera Phytophaga)". The Entomologist. 41 (537): 26–28. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.10159.
Seeno, T.N.; Wilcox, J.A. (1982). "Leaf beetle genera (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Entomography. 1: 1–221.
Reid, C. A. M. (1990). Systematics of the Australian Cryptocephalinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) (PDF) (PhD). Australian National University. hdl:1885/12539.