Agetocera

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Galerucinae
Tribus: Luperini
Subtribus: Aulacophorina
Genus: Agetocera
Species: A. abdominalis – A. biclava – A. birmanica – A. carinicornis – A. chapana – A. choui – A. cyanipennis – A. deformicornis – A. descedens – A. duporti – A. femoralis – A. filicornis – A. flaviventris – A. heinigi – A. hopei – A. huatungensis – A. lobicornis – A. manipuria – A. mirabilis – A. nigripennis – A. orientalis – A. parva – A. silva – A. similis – A. sokolovi – A. taiwana – A. yuae – A. yunnana
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Name

Agetocera Hope, 1831

Type species: Agetocera mirabilis Hope, 1831, by monotypy.
Synonymy

Aegelocerus Hope, 1831: 29 [unused original spelling]
Agetocera: Hope, 1840: 170 [emendation, spelling used by all subsequent authors]

References
Primary references

Hope, F.W. 1831. Synopsis of the new species of Nepaul insects in the collection of Major-General Hardwicke. Pp. 21–32. In: Gray J.E. (ed.): The Zoological Miscellany Vol. 1. London: Treuttel, Wuurtz & Co., 40 pp., 4 pls. BHL Reference page.
Hope, F.W. 1840. The coleopterist's manual, part the third, containing various families, genera, and species, of beetles, recorded by Linneus and Fabricius. Also, descriptions of newly discovered and unpublished insects. London : J.C. Bridgewater and Bowdery & Kerby. 191 pp. + 3 pls. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Beenen, R. 2010. Galerucinae Latreille, 1802. Pp. 443–491. 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.
Beenen, R. 2019. Faunistic, taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Palaearctic Galerucinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) with description of six new species and a new genus. Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 115: 1–20. [not seen]
Bezděk, J. 2009. Agetocera silva sp. nov. from the A. lobicornis species group (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae). Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey 31: 209–218. [not seen]
Lee, C.-F., Bezděk, J. & Staines, C.L. 2010. A review of the genus Agetocera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in Taiwan—are there only two species? Zootaxa 2441: 1–19. Preview. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2441.1.1 Paywall. ResearchGate Open access. Reference page.
Yang, X.-K., Ge, S.-Q. & Li, W.-Z. 2001. Revision of the genus Agetocera Hope (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Oriental Insects 35(1): 105–154. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2001.10417293 Paywall. Reference page.
Zhang, L.-J. & Yang, X.-K. 2005. A new species of the genus Agetocera Hope (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from China. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107: 119–122. BHL.

Agetocera is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 25 described species in Agetocera. They are found in Indomalaya and the Palaearctic, especially in China.[1][2][3][4]
Species

These 28 species belong to the genus Agetocera:[1][2][3][4]

Agetocera abdominalis Jiang, 1992 (China)
Agetocera biclava Zhang & Yang, 2005 (China)
Agetocera birmanica Jacoby, 1891 (Burma)
Agetocera carinicornis Chen, 1964 (China)
Agetocera chapana Laboissiere, 1929 (China, Vietnam, Burma)
Agetocera choui Lee, Bezdek & Staines, 2010 (Taiwan)
Agetocera cyanipennis Yang, 2001 (China)
Agetocera deformicornis Laboissiere, 1927 (China, Vietnam)
Agetocera discedens Weise, 1922 (Tiawan)
Agetocera duporti Laboissiere, 1927 (Vietnam)
Agetocera femoralis Chen, 1942 (China)
Agetocera filicornis Laboissiere, 1927 (China, Vietnam)
Agetocera flaviventris Jacoby, 1879 (India, Burma)
Agetocera hopei Baly, 1865 (China, Indomalaya)
Agetocera huatungensis Lee, Bezdek & Staines, 2010 (Taiwan)
Agetocera lobicornis Baly, 1865 (India, Burma)
Agetocera manipuria Maulik, 1932
Agetocera mirabilis (Hope, 1831) (China, Indomalaya)
Agetocera nigripennis Laboissiere, 1927 (China, Vietnam)
Agetocera orientalis Weise, 1902 (Vietnam)
Agetocera parva Chen, 1964 (China)
Agetocera silva Bezděk, 2009
Agetocera similis Chen, 1997 (China)
Agetocera sokolovi Medvedev, 1981 (Vietnam)
Agetocera taiwana Chujo, 1962 (Taiwan)
Agetocera yuae Lee, Bezdek & Staines, 2010 (Taiwan)
Agetocera yunnana Chen, 1964 (China)

References

"Agetocera". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
Nie, R-E; Bezděk, J.; Yang, X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13517. PMC 5740445. PMID 29290727.
Yang, Xing-Ke; Ge, Si-Qin; Li, Wen-Zhu (2012). "Revision of the genus Agetocera hope (Cole-Optera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)". Oriental Insects. 35 (1). doi:10.1080/00305316.2001.10417293.
Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezdĕk, Jan; Staines, Charles (2010). "A review of the genus Agetocera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in Taiwan—are there only two species?". Zootaxa. 5072 (3). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2441.1.1.