Mimastra

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: Luperina
Genus: Mimastra
Species: M. arcuata – M. andrewesi – M. badia – M. birmanica – M. chennelli – M. cyanura – M. davidis – M. fortipunctata – M. fouqueorum – M. grahami – M. hajeki – M. hsuehleeae – M. itoi – M. jacobyi – M. jelineki – M. kremitovskyi – M. kumatai – M. laotica – M. levmedvedevi – M. longicornis – M. lunata – M. maai – M. malvi – M. modesta – M. nilgiriensis – M. pallida – M. polita – M. riedeli – M. rugosa – M. schneideri – M. shahidi – M. strejceki – M. submetallica – M. sumatrensis – M. telnovi – M. tenuelimbata
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Name

Mimastra Baly, 1865: 253

Type species: Mimastra arcuata Baly, 1865, by original designation.
Synonyms

Anthraxantha Fairmaire in Deyrolle & Fairmaire, 1878: 137 [syn. Jacoby (1888: 351)]
Type species: Anthraxantha davidis Fairmaire, 1878, by monotypy.
Brachita Allard, 1889: ciii [syn. Allard (1890: lxxx)]
Type species: Brachita terminata Allard, 1889, by subsequent designation by Gressitt & Kimoto (1963: 535).
Neoatysa Abdullah & Qureshi, 1968: 412 [syn. Bezděk & Nie (2019: 659)]
Type species: Neoatysa shahidi Abdullah & Qureshi, 1968

References
Primary references

Abdullah, M. & Qureshi, S.S. 1968. The Chrysomelidae, Coleoptera of Pakistan. Part III. – A Key to the Genera and Species of the Galerucinae, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. Pakistan Journal of Science and Industrial Research 11(4): 396–414. Abstract only seen. Reference page.
Allard, E. 1889. Nouvelle note sur les phytophages à la suite d'un examen des galérucides appartenant au Musée royal de Belgique. Bulletin ou Comptes-Rendus des Séances de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 1889: cii–cxvii. BHL.
Allard, E. 1890. Troisième note sur les galérucides. Bulletin ou Comptes-Rendus des Séances de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 1890: lxxx–xciv. BHL.
Baly, J.S. 1865. Descriptions of new genera and species of Gallerucidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 3. 16(94): 247–255. DOI: 10.1080/00222936508679419 Paywall. BHL.
Bezděk, J. & Nie, R-E. 2019. Taxonomical changes and new records of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 22(3): 655–665. DOI: 10.1016/j.aspen.2019.05.002 Paywall. ResearchGate Open access. Reference page.
Gressitt, J.L. & Kimoto, S. 1963. The Chrysomelidae (Coleopt.) of China and Korea, part 2. Pacific Insects Monograph 1B: 301–1026. PDF. Reference page.
Jacoby, M. 1888. Descriptions of new Species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from Kiukiang (China). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1888: 339–351. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1888.tb06712.x Paywall. BHL.

Additional references

Bezděk, J. 2009. Revisional study on the genus Mimastra (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae): Species with unmodified protarsomeres in male. Part 1. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49(2): 819–840. PDF. Reference page.
Bezděk, J. 2010. Revisional study on the genus Mimastra (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Part 2. Annales Zoologici 60(1): 35–46. DOI: 10.3161/000345410X499506 Paywall.
Bezděk, J. 2011. Revisional study on the genus Mimastra (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Part 3: Mimastra oblonga and M. tarsalis species groups. Zootaxa 2766: 30–56. Preview.
Bezděk, J. 2013. Redescription of Mimastra kumatai (Kimoto & Takizawa, 1972), comb. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Genus: 24(3–4): 315–323. PDF.
Bezděk, J. 2017. Four new species of Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Malaysia and Indonesia. Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series 13(1): 1–13. PDF. Reference page.
Bezděk, J. & Lee, C.-F. 2011. Revisional study on the genus Mimastra (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Part 4. Annales Zoologici 61(4): 709–729. DOI: 10.3161/000345411X622543 Paywall.
Medvedev, L.N. 2018. New taxa of Oriental leaf beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Vernate 37: 321–324. PDF. Reference page.
Romantsov, P.V. 2017. A new species of the genus Mimastra Baly, 1865 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) with cross-like elytral pattern from Vietnam. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 13(1): 59–61. DOI: 10.23885/1814-3326-2017-13-1-59-61 Open access.

Mimastra is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 60 described species in Mimastra. They are found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Species

These 68 species belong to the genus Mimastra:

Mimastra alternata (Jacoby, 1896)
Mimastra andrewesi Bezděk, 2010
Mimastra anicka Bezděk, 2011
Mimastra annadalei (Jacoby, 1905)
Mimastra aptera Takizawa, 1990
Mimastra arcuata Balý, 1865
Mimastra australis Takizawa, 1986
Mimastra badia Kimoto, 1989
Mimastra birmanica Bryant, 1954
Mimastra brevicollis (Allard, 1889)
Mimastra capitata Jacoby, 1887
Mimastra chennelli Balý, 1897
Mimastra costatipennis Jacoby, 1903
Mimastra cyanura (Hope, 1831)
Mimastra elegans (Allard, 1889)
Mimastra fortipunctata Maulik, 1936
Mimastra fouqueorum Bezděk & Lee, 2012
Mimastra fulva Kimoto, 1983
Mimastra gracilicornis Jacoby, 1889
Mimastra gracilis Bay, 1878
Mimastra grahami Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963
Mimastra guerryi (Laboissiere, 1929)
Mimastra hajeki Bezděk, 2017
Mimastra hsuehleeae Bezděk & Lee, 2012 (temperate Asia)
Mimastra itoi (Takizawa, 1986)
Mimastra jacobyi Bezděk, 2010
Mimastra javana (Weise, 1922)
Mimastra jelineki Bezděk, 2009
Mimastra kandyensis Maulik, 1936
Mimastra kremitovskyi Bezděk, 2009
Mimastra laotica Bezděk & Lee, 2012
Mimastra latimana Allard, 1890
Mimastra levmedvedevi Romantsov, 2017
Mimastra leyteana Medvedev, 1995
Mimastra limbata Balý, 1879
Mimastra longicornis (Allard, 1888)
Mimastra lunata (Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844)
Mimastra maai (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1936)
Mimastra malvi (Chen, 1942)
Mimastra modesta (Fairmaire, 1889)
Mimastra nilgiriensis Bezděk, 2010
Mimastra nitida Maulik, 1936
Mimastra oblonga (Gyllenhal, 1808)
Mimastra pallida Jacoby, 1896
Mimastra parva (Allard, 1889)
Mimastra persimilis Kimoto, 1989
Mimastra platteeuwi (Duvivier, 1890)
Mimastra polita (Jacoby, 1889)
Mimastra procerula Zhang, Yang, Cui & Li, 2006
Mimastra pygidialis Laboissiere, 1929
Mimastra quadrinotata (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963)
Mimastra quadripartita Baly, 1879
Mimastra riedeli Bezděk, 2009
Mimastra robusta Jacoby, 1887
Mimastra rugosa (Jacoby, 1886)
Mimastra schneideri Bezděk & Lee, 2012
Mimastra scutellata (Jacoby, 1904)
Mimastra semimarginata (Jacoby, 1886)
Mimastra soreli Baly, 1878
Mimastra strejceki Bezděk, 2010
Mimastra submetallica (Jacoby, 1884)
Mimastra sumatrensis (Jacoby, 1896)
Mimastra suwai Takizawa, 1988
Mimastra tarsalis Medvedev, 2009
Mimastra tenuelimbata Lopatin, 2004
Mimastra terminata (Allard, 1889)
Mimastra uncitarsis Laboissiere, 1940
Mimastra violaceipennis (Jacoby, 1884)

References

"Mimastra". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
Bezděk, Jan (2009). "Revisional study on the genus Mimastra (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae): Species with unmodified protarsomeres in male, Part 1" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 49 (2).
Bezděk, Jan (2010). "Revisional Study on the Genus: Mimastra (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), Part 2". Annales Zoologici. 60 (1). doi:10.3161/000345410X499506.
Bezděk, Jan (2011). "Revisional study on the genus Mimastra (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), Part 3: Mimastra oblonga and M. tarsalis species groups". Zootaxa. 2766 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2766.1.2.
Bezděk, Jan; Lee, Chi-Feng (2011). "Revisional Study on the Genus: Mimastra (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), Part 4". Annales Zoologici. 61 (4). doi:10.3161/000345411X622543.
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.