Plagiosterna aenea

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: Chrysomelinae
Tribus: Chrysomelini
Subtribus: Chrysomelina
Genus: Plagiosterna
Species: Plagiosterna aenea
Subspecies: P. a. aenea – P. a. insularis – P. a. tsutsuii
Name

Plagiosterna aenea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonymy

Chrysomela aenea Linnaeus, 1758: 369
Coccinella vitellinae Scopoli, 1763: 72
Chrysomela coeruleoviolacea DeGeer, 1775: 316
Chrysomela haemorrhoidalis O. F. Müller, 1776: 81
Chrysomela fuscicornis Fabricius, 1781: 126 [junior homonym]
Chrysomela violacea Olivier, 1791: 718 [junior homonym]
Melasoma aenea var. bicolor Schilsky, 1908: 603
Melasoma aenea var. purpureotincta Pic, 1924: 26

References
Primary references

De Geer, C. 1775. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Insectes. Tome cinquième. Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm. vii + [1 (Errata)] + 448 pp., 16 pls. Gallica. Google booksOpen access. Reference page.
Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species insectorum; exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma, auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin ediectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Carol. Ernest. Bohnii, Hamburg and Kiel, vol 1: VIII + 552 pp. BHL Reference page.
Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542: 369. Reference page.
Müller, O.F. 1776. Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Hallager: Havniae [=Copenhagen]. i–xxxii + 1–282 pp. BHL Reference page.
Olivier, G-A. 1790–1791. Encyclopédie méthodique, ou par ordre de matières; par une société de gens de lettres, de savans et d’artistes; Précédée ďun vocabulaire universel, servant de table pou l’Ouvrage, ornée des Portraits de MM. Diderot l’Alembert, premiers Éditeurs de l’Encyclopédie. Histoire naturelle. Insectes. Tome cinquième. Paris: Panckoucke, 793 pp. BHL Reference page.
Pic, M. 1924. Notes diverses, descriptions et diagnoses. L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 39: 17–18, 21–23, 25–27, 29–30. BHL, BHL, BHL, BHL.
Schilsky, F.J. 1908. Neue märkische Käfer und Varietäten aus der Gegend von Luckenwalde. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1908: 52: 599–604. BHL.
Scopoli, J.A. 1763. Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates: methodo Linnaeana (1763). pp. 1–35, 1–420. Trattner, Vindobonae [Vienna]. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Cho, H.-W. & Świętojańska, J. 2017. Larval morphology of Plagiosterna adamsii (Baly) and P. aenea (Linnaeus) with resurrection of Gastrolinoides Chûjô & Kimoto and P. formosana (Bates) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae). Zootaxa 4236(2): 381–391. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.2.12 Paywall. ResearchGate Open access. Reference page.
Kippenberg, H. 2010. Subfamily Chrysomelinae Latreille, 1802. Pp. 390–443. 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.
Löbl, I. & Smetana, A.. 2011. Errata to Volumes 1 to 6. Pp. 23–63. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 7. Curculionoidea I. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. 373 pp. ISBN 978-87-88757-93-4. Google Books.

Links

Plagiosterna aenea Taxon details on Fauna Europaea
ZooBank: act:C9ED1D33-8975-40E3-AE90-F2819098AAD2
Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Linaeidea aenea L. (Chrysomelidae) - atlas of beetles of Russia, K.V. Makarov

Plagiosterna aenea is a species of leaf beetle native to Europe.[1][2]
References

Fauna Europaea
Warchalowski, A. (2003) Chrysomelidae. The Leaf-beetles of Europe and the Mediterranean Area. Warsawa: Natura Optima Dux.