Amphimela

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: Galerucinae
Tribus: Alticini
Genus: Amphimela
Species: A. apicalis – A. bryanti – A. ceylonica – A. flava – A. fulva – A. indica – A. laosica – A. malayana – A. mauliki – A. megalayana – A. metallica – A. mouhoti – A. picta – A. rufula – A. shirahatai – A. srilankana – A. subgeminata
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Name

Amphimela Chapuis, 1875: 34

Type species: Amphimela mouhoti Chapuis, 1875, by monotypy.
Synonyms

Xanthocycla Baly, 1875: 29
Type species: Xanthocycla chapuisii Baly, 1875, by original designation.
Sphaerophysa Baly, 1876: 581 [syn. Biondi & D'Alessandro, 2012]
Type species: Sphaerophysa clavicornis Baly, 1876, by monotypy.
Clitea Baly, 1877: 287
Type species: Clitea picta Baly, 1877, by original designation.
Diboloides Jacoby, 1897: 553 [syn. Scherer, 1961]
Type species: Diboloides bicolor Jacoby, 1897, by monotypy.
Dibolosoma Jacoby, 1897: 559 [syn. Biondi & D'Alessandro, 2010]
Type species: Dibolosoma quadripustulatum Jacoby, 1897, by monotypy.
Halticova Fairmaire, 1898: 428 [syn. Biondi & D'Alessandro, 2010]
Type species: Halticova rufoguttata Fairmaire, 1898 [= Dibolosoma quadripustulatum Jacoby, 1897], by monotypy.
Halticella Jacoby, 1899: 357 [nec Halticella Stephens, 1829 (Hymenoptera)]
Type species: Halticella flavopustulata Jacoby, 1899, by monotypy.
Cereyonia Weise, 1902: 304 [syn. Scherer, 1961]
Type species: Cereyonia variabilis Weise, 1902, by monotypy.
Throscoryssa Maulik, 1928: 161 [syn. Konstantinov & Prathapan, 2008]
Type species: Throscoryssa citri Maulik, 1928 [= Amphimela mauliki Prathapan, 2017], by original designation.
Halticorthaea Csiki, 1940: 418 [replacement name for Halticella Jacoby, 1899; syn. Scherer, 1961]

References
Primary references

Baly, J.S. 1875. Descriptions of new genera and species of Phytophaga. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1875: 23–32. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1875.tb01898.x Paywall. BHL.
Baly, J.S. 1876. Descriptions of a new genus and of new species of Halticinae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1876: 581–602. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1876.tb01931.x Paywall. BHL.
Baly, J.S. 1877. Descriptions of new genera and of uncharacterized species of Halticinae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877: 283–323. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1877.tb02918.x Paywall. BHL. Reference page.
Biondi, M. & D'Alessandro, P. 2010. Genus-group names of Afrotropical flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae): Annotated catalogue and biogeographical notes. European Journal of Entomology 107: 401–424. DOI: 10.14411/eje.2010.049 Open access. Reference page.
Biondi, M. & D'Alessandro, P. 2012. Afrotropical flea beetle genera: a key to their identification, updated catalogue and biogeographical analysis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). ZooKeys 253: 1–158. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.253.3414 Open access. Reference page.
Chapuis, F. 1875. Tome onzième. Famille des phytophages. In: Lacordaire, J.T. & Chapuis, F. (eds) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des coléoptères, ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 420 pp. BHL. Reference page.
Fairmaire, L. 1898. Matériaux pour la faune coléoptèrique de la région malgache (6e note). Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique 42: 390–439. BHL.
Jacoby, M. 1897. Further contributions to the knowledge of the phytophagous Coleoptera of Africa, including Madagascar, Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897: 527–577. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03108.x Paywall. BHL
Jacoby, M. 1899. Additions to the knowledge of the phytophagous Coleoptera of Africa. Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899: 339–380. BHL.
Konstantinov, A.S. & Prathapan, K.D. 2008. New generic synonyms in the Oriental flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 62(3): 381-418. DOI: 10.1649/1089.1 Paywall. JSTOR Hybrid open access journal. PDF. Reference page.
Scherer, G. 1961. Bestimmungsschlüssel der Alticinen-Genera Afrikas (Col. Phytoph.). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 12(1): 251–288. BHL.
Weise, J. 1902. Einige neue afrikaniche Chrysomeliden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1901: 301–310. BHL.

Additional references

Döberl, M. 2010. Subfamily Alticinae Newman, 1835. Pp. 491–563. 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.
Medvedev, L.N. 2016. New and poorly known Oriental Alticinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Russian Entomological Journal 25(3): 259–264. PDF. Reference page.
Medvedev, L.N. 2016. New and poorly known Oriental Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) in the collection of the Naturkundemuseum Erfurt. Vernate 35: 347–365. PDF. Reference page.
Prathapan, K.D. 2017. Identity of the citrus leaf mining flea beetle in north-east India and nomenclatural changes in Amphimela (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini). The Florida Entomologist 100(2): 276–280. Online (with PDF download).