Lanka

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: Lanka
Species: L. antennalis – L. aruna – L. azumai – L. bicolor – L. bimaculata – L. brunnea – L. cyanipennis – L. esakii – L. fulva – L. jucunda – L. laevigata – L. laotica – L. maculata – L. magnoliae – L. minor – L. nagaii – L. nigra – L. nigricollis – L. obscura – L. octagona – L. ogloblini – L. philippina – L. quadriornata – L. ramakrishnai – L. rufipennis – L. rufofulva – L. sahyadriensis
Name

Lanka Maulik, 1926: 304

Type species: Lanka brunnea Maulik, 1926, by original designation.
Synonyms

Horaia Chûjô, 1937: 55 [syn. Kimoto & Takizawa, 1994: 337]
Type species: Horaia nigra Chûjô, 1937, by original designation.
Dentisterna Medvedev, 1993: 53 [syn. Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996: 320]
Type species: Dentisterna bicolor Medvedev, 1993, by original designation.
Neorthella Medvedev, 2010: 292 [syn.: Prathapan & Konstantinov, 2022]
Type species: Neorthella rufofulva Medvedev, 2010, by original designation.

References
Primary references

Konstantinov, A.S. & Vandenberg, N.J. 1996. Handbook of Palearctic Flea Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). Contributions on Entomology, International 1(3): 237–439. ISBN 1-56665-064-X. Reference page.
Maulik, S. 1926. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae (Chrysomelinae and Halticinae). Taylor and Francis, London, 442 pp. BHL.
Medvedev, L.N. 1993. Alticinae of the Philippine Islands (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). Part 1. Russian Entomological Journal 2(3–4): 41–58. [not seen]
Medvedev, L.N. 2010. New and poorly known Alticinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from New Guinea and islands of Southeast Asia. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 3: 291–304. PDF. Reference page.
Prathapan, K.D. & Konstantinov, A.S. 2022. Revision of Oriental flea beetle genera with subparallel intercoxal ridges on the first abdominal ventrite (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). Journal of Natural History 55(25–26): 1521–1598. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1933229 Paywall. ResearchGate Open access. Reference page.

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.
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.
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. & Viraktamath, C.A. 2008. The flea beetle genus Lanka (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in India with descriptions of three new species and notes on the identity of the pollu beetle infesting black pepper, Piper nigrum. Zootaxa 1681: 1–30. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1681.1.1 Paywall. Reference page.
Takizawa, H. 2015. Notes on Japanese Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), III. Elytra (n.s.) 5(1): 233–250. PDF.