Ischalia

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
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Subfamilia: Ischaliinae
Genus: Ischalia
Subgenera (3): I. (Eupleurida) – I. (Ischalia) – I. (Nitidischalia) – I. (Telnovia) –
[source: Young (2011)]
Species: †I. danieli – †I. dohnaturris –
Name

Ischalia Pascoe, 1860

References

Pascoe, F.P. 1860: Notices of new or little-known genera and species of Coleoptera [continued from p. 64.] Part II. Journal of entomology 1: 98–132, plates V-VIII. BHL Reference page.
Alekseev, V.I. & Bukejs, A. 2017. New fossil taxa of Ischalia Pascoe (Coleoptera: Ischaliidae) from Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4323(2): 229–238. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.2.6 Reference page.
Gusakov, A.A. & Telnov, D. 2007. Systematic changes and new species of Ischaliidae (Coleoptera). Folia Heyrovskyana 15(1): 39-46. Reference page.
Saitô, M. 1994: A revisional study of the Japanese species of the family Ischaliidae (Coleoptera, Heteromera). Elytra, Tokyo, 22(2): 335–343.
Saitô, M. 2003: A new species of the genus Ischalia (Coleoptera, Anthicidae, Ischaliinae) from Hokkaido, Japan. Elytra, Tokyo, 31(1): 55–60.
Saitô, M. 2011: Description of two new species of the genus Ischalia (Coleoptera, Ischaliidae) from the Island of Shikoku, Japan. Elytra (n.s.) 1(2): 307-314. [not seen] Reference page.
Satô, M. 1990: The genus Ischalia (Coleoptera, Pyrochroidae) from Taiwan. Elytra, Tokyo, 18: 101–104.
Satô, M. 2002: Notes on the blue-elytral group of the genus Ischalia (Coleoptera, Anthicidae, Ischaliinae) from Southeast Asia. Special bulletin of the Japanese Society of Coleopterology, (5): 341–346.
Sato, M. 2002. Two new species of the genus Ischalia (Coleoptera, Anthicidae, Ischaliinae) from the Philippines. Elytra 30(2): 331–334. Reference page.
Satô, M.; Ohbayashi, N. 2001: Notes on some coleopteran groups of the Himalo-Japanese element in northern Vietnam II. On the genus Ischalia (Anthicidae: Ischaliinae). Special publication of the Japan Coleopterological Society Osaka, (1): 375–380.
Young, D.K. 1985: Description of the larva of Ischalia vancouverensis Harrington (Coleoptera: Anthicidae: Ischaliinae), with observations on the systematic position of the genus. Coleopterists bulletin, 39(3): 201–206. JSTOR
Young, D.K. 2008(2007): Three new Asian species of Ischalia Pascoe, 1860 (Coleoptera: Ischaliidae), with a world checklist of subgenera and species. Pan-Pacific entomologist, 83(4): 321–331. DOI: 10.3956/2007-16.1
Young, D.K. 2011: A new Asian subgenus and species of Ischalia (Coleoptera: Ischaliidae) with an assessment of subgeneric concepts, revised world checklist, and keys to the subgenera and "blue elytra" species. Zootaxa, 2811: 53–58. Preview
Young, D.K. 2014: A new Philippine species of Ischalia (Coleoptera: Ischaliidae), with a checklist and key to the Philippine species. Insecta mundi, (0375) Reference page.

Links

Atlas of the family Ischaliidae of Russia
Telnov, Dmitry. 2010. Ischaliidae Blair, 1920. Ischalia Pascoe, 1860. Version 19 October 2010 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Ischalia/66150/2010.10.19 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

Ischalia is a genus of broad-hipped flower beetles in the family Ischaliidae, and the only genus of the subfamily Ischaliinae. There are at least 3 described species in Ischalia.[1][2]
Species

Ischalia californica Van Dyke, 1938
Ischalia costata (LeConte, 1861)
Ischalia vancouverensis Harrington, 1892

References

"Ischalia Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 7 February 2018.

Lee, Seung-Gyu; Nam, Jong-Woo; Lim, Jongok (2017). "A taxonomic note on the little known Ischaliidae Blair and first record of Ischalia brachyptera Nikitsky in Korea (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 10 (2): 212–215. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2017.04.009.