Biology:Selmania

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Short description: Genus of leaf beetles from Africa

Selmania
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Typophorini
Genus: Selmania
Zoia, 2019[1]
Type species
Rhembastus colasposomoides
Burgeon, 1941
Synonyms

Massartia Selman, 1965 (nec Conrad, 1926, nec Schouteden, 1952)[2]

Selmania is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae, found in Africa.[3] Most of the species in the genus were originally placed in Rhembastus.[2]

The genus was originally named Massartia by Brian John Selman in 1965, but it was later found that the name had already been used for a dinoflagellate and a hemipteran. Because of this, Stefano Zoia renamed the genus to Selmania in 2019.[1]

Species

Eight species are included in the genus:[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Zoia, S (2019). "New data on African Eumolpinae with description of new taxa from the collections of the Natural History Museum of Erfurt (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Vernate 38: 305–333. https://www.naturkundemuseum-erfurt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Wissenschaft/Publikationen/Museumshefte_Vernate/Hefte/38/20_Zoia.pdf. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Selman, B. J. (1965). "A revision of the Nodini and a key to the genera of Eumolpidae of Africa (Coleoptera: Eumolpidae)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 16 (3): 141–174. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.21864. https://archive.org/download/biostor-86049/biostor-86049.pdf. 
  3. "Selmania". http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Selmania.html. 
  4. Jacoby, M. (1900). "On new genera and species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from South and Central Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900: 203–266. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35994461. 
  5. Burgeon, L. (1942). "Chrysomelidae - S. Fam. Eumolpinae". Exploration du Parc National Albert - Exploratie van het Nationaal Albert Park - Mission/Zending G.F. De Witte (1933-1935) 37: 3–31. http://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/institut-des-parcs-nationaux-du-congo/exploration-du-parc-national-albert-exploratie-van-het-nationaal-albert-park-mission-zending-g-f-de-witte-1933-1935/37-1942-mission-zending-g-f-de-witte-1933-1935-chrysomelidae-eumolpinae/irscnb_p4137_rbins18742_37_corps-de-texte-red.pdf. 
  6. Selman, B. J. (1972). "Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Exploration Parc National de la Garamba. Mission H. De Saeger 55: 1–95. 
  7. Zoia, S. (2010). "New data on African Eumolpinae from the collections of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Basel (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey 32: 323–341. http://www.chrysomelidae.it/Chrysomelidae/pubblicazioni-pdf-scaricabili/Zoia2010a.pdf. 

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