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Pagria

Pagria is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from Africa, Asia and Australia.

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Pagria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Typophorini
Genus: Pagria
Lefèvre, 18841
Type species
Pagria suturalis
Lefèvre, 18841
Synonyms2

Pagria is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from Africa, Asia and Australia.

Species

The following species are placed in the genus:45678910

  • Pagria annulicornis Pic, 1950 – mainland Southeast Asia
  • Pagria apicalis Pic, 194011 – Angola
  • Pagria australis Bryant, 194212 – Australia
  • Pagria bengalensis Moseyko & Medvedev, 20058 – India
  • Pagria bipustulata (Baly, 1867)13 – Borneo
  • Pagria bisignata Pic, 1949
  • Pagria brevenotata Pic, 1952 – Benin
  • Pagria burmanica Jacoby, 190814 – Myanmar
  • Pagria camerunensis (Jacoby, 1904)15 – Cameroon
  • Pagria ceylonica Pic, 1929 – Sri Lanka
  • Pagria concinna (Weise, 1895)3 – Ghana, Ivory Coast
  • Pagria concolor (Motschulsky, 1866)9 – Java
  • Pagria conglomerata Jacoby, 190814 – Southern India
  • Pagria consimilis (Baly, 1874)16 – Japan, South Korea, Russian Far East, Taiwan, Lombok, Sumatra
  • Pagria dahomeyensis Pic, 1952 – Benin
  • Pagria donckieri Pic, 1950 – Sumatra
  • Pagria fossulata Pic, 1952 – Ethiopia
  • Pagria gossypii Bryant, 1933 – Nigeria
  • Pagria grata (Baly, 1867)13 – India, Nepal, China, Taiwan, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Philippines, Sumatra, Java, New Britain
  • Pagria ingibbosa Pic, 1929 – India, Nepal, China, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Sumba, Lombok
  • Pagria laotica Moseyko, 201317 – Laos
  • Pagria liturata Lefèvre, 189118 – Angola, DR Congo, Ethiopia, South Sudan
  • Pagria maculata Moseyko & Medvedev, 20058 – Vietnam
  • Pagria mahembensis (Selman, 1965)19 – Rwanda
  • Pagria maynei Burgeon, 1941 – DR Congo
  • Pagria minuta Pic, 1949 – Ivory Coast
  • Pagria muiri Bryant, 194212 – Tanimbar Islands (Larat), Philippines
  • Pagria nigrosuturalis (Bryant, 1960) – Tanzania
  • Pagria pici Moseyko & Medvedev, 20058 – Vietnam
  • Pagria porosicollis (Jacoby, 1898)20 – Cameroon
  • Pagria pseudograta Moseyko, 20129 – Sri Lanka
  • Pagria restituens (Walker, 1859) – Sri Lanka
  • Pagria ruficeps Pic, 1949 – Sierra Leone, Benin
  • Pagria rufoscutellaris Pic, 194011 – Angola
  • Pagria ruwenzoriensis Selman, 197221 – DR Congo
  • Pagria sexmaculata Kimoto & Gressitt, 19826 – Thailand, Laos
  • Pagria signata (Motschulsky, 1858) – Southwestern China (Yunnan: Xishuangbanna), India, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia
  • Pagria sumatrensis Lefèvre, 1887 – Sumatra, Borneo (Sabah)
  • Pagria suturalis Lefèvre, 18841 – East Africa, DR Congo, Uganda, South Sudan
  • Pagria ussuriensis Moseyko & Medvedev, 20058 – Russian Far East, Northeast China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan
  • Pagria varians Lefèvre, 18841 – East Africa, DR Congo, South Sudan, Ivory Coast
  • Pagria vietnamica Moseyko & Medvedev, 20058 – Vietnam, Thailand
  • Pagria viridiaenea (Gyllenhal, 1808) – "East India", Sri Lanka

Species moved to other genera:

Other synonyms:239

  • Pagria aenea (Motschulsky, 1866): synonym of Pagria restituens (Walker, 1859)
  • Pagria aeneicollis Lefèvre, 1890: synonym of Pagria grata (Baly, 1867)
  • Pagria bipunctata Lefèvre, 1891:18 synonym of Pagria signata (Motschulsky, 1858)
  • Pagria ceylonensis Jacoby, 1908:14 synonym of Pagria viridiaenea (Gyllenhal, 1808)24
  • Pagria costatipennis Jacoby, 1887:25 synonym of Pagria restituens (Walker, 1859)
  • Pagria diversepunctata Pic, 1950: synonym of Pagria signata (Motschulsky, 1858)
  • Pagria flavopustulata (Baly, 1874):16 synonym of Pagria grata (Baly, 1867)
  • Pagria kanarensis (Jacoby, 1895): synonym of Pagria grata (Baly, 1867)
  • Pagria lineolata Pic, 1949: synonym of Pagria ingibbosa Pic, 192926
  • Pagria nodieri Pic, 1949: synonym of Pagria grata (Baly, 1867)
  • Pagria vignaphila Bryant, 1942:12 synonym of Pagria grata (Baly, 1867)
  • Pagria xanthopus (Harold, 1874): synonym of Pagria grata (Baly, 1867)
References

References

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