Fidia

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: Eumolpinae
Tribus: Bromiini
Genus: Fidia
Subgenera: F. (Fidia) – F. (Lypesthinia)
Overview of species

F. albida – F. atra – F. basalis – F. bicoloripes – F. bisquamosa – F. brancuccii – F. carinata – F. fulva – F. gracilicornis – F. impressa – F. indica – F. irregularis – F. itoi – F. japonica – F. kanaraensis – F. kiiensis – F. laeta – F. lewisi – F. mausonica – F. medvedevi – F. multidentata – F. perelegans – F. phoebicola – F. picea – F. regalis – F. rufa – F. shirozui – F. sinensis – F. striata – F. submaculata – F. subregularis – F. sulcatifrons – F. vietnamica – F. vittata
Name

Fidia Motschulsky, 1861: 22

Type species: Fidia atra Motschulsky, 1861, by monotypy.
Synonyms

Endoxus Baly, 1861: 285 (misspelling of Adoxus; see Errata (p. 491))
Lypesthes Baly, 1863: 152
Type species: Fidia atra Motschulsky, 1861, by original designation.
Leprotes Baly, 1863: 158 [syn. with Lypesthes Baly, 1863 in Chen, 1935: 370–371]
Type species: Adoxus gracilicornis Baly, 1861, by original designation.
Talmonus Fairmaire, 1889: 71 [syn. with Lypesthes Baly, 1863 in Jacoby, 1890: 115]
Type species: Talmonus farinosus Fairmaire, 1889 [= Fidia atra Motschulsky, 1861], by monotypy.

References
Primary references

Baly, J.S. 1861. Descriptions of new genera and species of Phytophaga. The Journal of Entomology 1: 275–302. BHL Reference page.
Baly, J.S. 1863. An attempt at a classification of the Eumolpidae. The Journal of Entomology 2: 143–163. BHL. Reference page.
Chen, S.H. 1935. Study of Chinese eumolpid beetles. Sinensia 6(3): 221–387. [not seen]
Fairmaire, L. 1889. Coléoptères de l'intérieur de la Chine. 5e Partie. Annales de la Société entomologique de France (6) 9: 5–84. BHL
Jacoby, M. 1890. Descriptions of new species of phytophagous Coleoptera received by Mr. J. H. Leech, from Chang-Yang, China. (Continued from p. 89.). The Entomologist 23: 114–118. BHL.
Motschulsky, V. de 1861. Insectes du Japon. Études Entomologiques 9: 4–39. BHL.

Additional references

Eroshkina, G.A. 1992. Ревизия рода Lypesthes (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) фауны Вьетнама [Revision of the genus Lypesthes (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae) in the fauna of Vietnam]. Pp. 82–90. In: Medvedev, L.N. (ed.) Систематика и экология насекомых Вьетнама [Systematics and Ecology of Insects of Vietnam]. Nauka, Moscow, 263 pp. (in Russian) ISBN 9785020054219. Google Books (Snippet view only). Reference page. [as Lypesthes]
Jacoby, M. 1908. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera. Chrysomelidae. Vol. 1. London: Francis & Taylor. xx + 534 pp., 2 pls. Internet Archive. BHL Reference page. [as Lypesthes]
Kimoto, S. & Gressitt, J.L. 1982. Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. III. Eumolpinae. Esakia 18(1): 1–141. hdl: 2324/2421 Open access. Reference page. [as Lypesthes]
Kumari, S.A., Moseyko, A.G., Strother, M.S. & Prathapan, K.D. 2020. Neofidia Strother, a new name for Fidia Baly, 1863 and redescription of Fidia kanaraensis (Jacoby, 1895) with a new host record and notes on natural history (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae). European Journal of Taxonomy 654: 1–25. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.654 Open access. Reference page.
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. [as Lypesthes]

Fidia (formerly known as Lypesthes) is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[3][4] It is distributed in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa.[5][6]
Taxonomic history
See also: Neofidia

In 1861, Victor Motschulsky described a new species of beetle from Japan with the name Fidia atra. In 1863, Joseph Sugar Baly designated Fidia atra as the type species of a newly established genus with the name Lypesthes. In a 2008 review of the New World genus Fidia Baly, 1863, it was determined that Motschulsky's species description made the name Fidia available first, meaning that Lypesthes Baly, 1863 is a junior synonym of Fidia Motschulsky, 1861 and that Fidia Baly, 1863 is a junior homonym.[7]

An application to suppress Fidia Motschulsky, 1861 (with the year incorrectly given as "1860") and conserve usage of Fidia Baly, 1863 and Lypesthes Baly, 1863 was submitted to the ICZN in 2006. This proposal was rejected by the commission in 2009, upholding the priority of Fidia Motschulsky, 1861.[8] Following this ruling, Fidia Baly, 1863 was renamed to Neofidia in 2020.[1]
Species

There are 33 species currently recognised in the genus Fidia:[1]

Subgenus Fidia Motschulsky, 1861

Fidia albida (Pic, 1923)[9]
Fidia atra Motschulsky, 1861
Fidia basalis (Chen, 1940)
Fidia bicoloripes (Pic, 1936)
Fidia bisquamosa (Chen, 1935)
Fidia brancuccii (Medvedev, 1993)
Fidia carinata (Eroshkina, 1992)
Fidia fulva (Baly, 1878)
Fidia gracilicornis (Baly, 1861)
Fidia impressa (Pic, 1928)[10][6]
Fidia indica (Jacoby, 1908)
Fidia irregularis (Eroshkina, 1992)
Fidia itoi (Chûjô, 1954)[11]
Fidia japonica (Ohno, 1958)
Fidia kiiensis (Ohno, 1958)
Fidia laeta (Medvedev, 2007)[12]
Fidia lewisi (Baly, 1878)
Fidia mausonica (Eroshkina, 1992)
Fidia medvedevi Kumari et al., 2020
Fidia perelegans (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961)
Fidia phoebicola (Tan, 1983)
Fidia picea (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961)
Fidia regalis (Medvedev & Zoia, 1996)[13]
Fidia rufa (Pic, 1924)[14][6]
Fidia shirozui (Kimoto, 1969)[15]
Fidia sinensis (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961)
Fidia striata (Eroshkina, 1992)
Fidia submaculata (Pic, 1924)[14]
Fidia subregularis (Pic, 1923)[9]
Fidia sulcatifrons (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961)
Fidia vietnamica (Eroshkina, 1992)
Fidia vittata (Zhou & Tan, 1997)

Subgenus Lypesthinia Pic, 1939

Fidia multidentata (Pic, 1939)

References

Kumari, S. Amritha; Moseyko, A. G.; Strother, M. S.; Prathapan, K. D. (2020). "Neofidia Strother, a new name for Fidia Baly, 1863 and redescription of Fidia kanaraensis (Jacoby, 1895) with a new host record and notes on natural history (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 654 (654): 1–25. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.654.
Baly, J. S. (1863). "An attempt at a classification of the Eumolpidae". The Journal of Entomology. 2: 143–163.
"Fidia". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
"Lypesthinia". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
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.
Kimoto, S.; Gressitt, J. L. (1982). "Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. III. Eumolpinae" (PDF). Esakia. 18: 1–141. hdl:2324/2421.
Strother, M.S.; Staines, C.L. (2008). "A revision of the New World genus Fidia Baly 1863 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae: Adoxini)". Zootaxa. 1798: 1–100. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1798.1.1.
ICZN (2009). "Opinion 2227 (Case 3375) Fidia Baly, 1863 and Lypesthes Baly, 1863 (Insecta, Coleoptera): usage not conserved and priority maintained for Fidia Motschulsky, 1860". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 66 (2): 198–200. doi:10.21805/bzn.v66i2.a12. S2CID 177769135.
Pic, M. (1923). "Nouveautés diverses" (PDF). Mélanges Exotico–Entomologiques. 40: 1–32.
Pic, M. (1928). "Nouveautés diverses" (PDF). Mélanges Exotico–Entomologiques. 52: 1–32.
Chûjô, M. (1954). "Descriptions of a new species and a new subspecies of the genus Lypesthes Baly from Japan, including some notices on its two other known-species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. 18 (3–4): 103–108. hdl:2115/9548.
Medvedev, L.N. (2007). "New and poorly known Oriental Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) (702): 1–19.
Medvedev, L. N.; Zoia, S. (1996). "New and interesting species of Eumolpinae from Pakistan and Thailand (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae)". Bollettino di Zoologia Agraria e Bachicoltura. 2. 28 (2): 111–117.
Pic, M. (1924). "Nouveautés diverses" (PDF). Mélanges Exotico–Entomologiques. 41: 1–32.
Kimoto, S. (1969). "Notes on the Chrysomelidae from Taiwan II" (PDF). Esakia. 7: 1–68. hdl:2324/2358.