| Pseudotheopea | |
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| Pseudotheopea smaragdina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Luperini |
| Subtribe: | Luperina |
| Genus: | Pseudotheopea Lee & Bezdek, 2020 |
| Type species | |
| Theopea sauteri Chûjô, 1935
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Pseudotheopea is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 20 described species in Pseudotheopea, found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic.12 It is closely related to the genus Theopea.
Species
These 24 species belong to the genus Pseudotheopea, divided into three species groups (with five other species currently unassigned to any group):12
Pseudotheopea sauteri group:
- Pseudotheopea coerulea (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
- Pseudotheopea geiseri (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (India)
- Pseudotheopea hainanensis (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (China)
- Pseudotheopea laosensis (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (China, Laos, Vietnam)
- Pseudotheopea sauteri (Chûjô, 1935) (Taiwan)
- Pseudotheopea sekerkai (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (Laos)
Pseudotheopea costata group:
- Pseudotheopea aeneipennis (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
- Pseudotheopea azurea (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
- Pseudotheopea boreri Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (India)
- Pseudotheopea clypealis (Medvedev, 2015) (Vietnam)
- Pseudotheopea costata (Allard, 1889) (Philippines)
- Pseudotheopea gressitti Lee and Bezděk, 2020 (Philippines)
- Pseudotheopea hsingtzungi Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos)
- Pseudotheopea kimotoi Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam)
- Pseudotheopea leehsuehae Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos)
- Pseudotheopea smaragdina (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)
- Pseudotheopea sufangae Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Taiwan)
Pseudotheopea similis group:
- Pseudotheopea nigrita (Medvedev, 2007) (Thailand)
- Pseudotheopea similis (Kimoto, 1989) (Laos, Vietnam)
Species unassigned to any species group:
- Pseudotheopea aureoviridis (Chûjô, 1935) (Japan)
- Pseudotheopea cheni (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (Taiwan)
- Pseudotheopea collaris (Kimoto, 1989) (Taiwan)
- Pseudotheopea irregularis (Takizawa, 1978) (Taiwan)
- Pseudotheopea kanmiyai (Kimoto, 1984) (Taiwan)
References
References
- "Pseudotheopea". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
- Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2020). "Revision of the Theopea genus group (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae), part III: Descriptions of two new genera and nine new species". ZooKeys (912): 65–124. Bibcode:2020ZooK..912...65L. doi:10.3897/zookeys.912.47719. PMC 7040049. PMID 32123500.