Pyrrhalta

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: Galerucini
Genus: Pyrrhalta
Species: P. alishanensis – P. angulaticollis – P. annulicornis – P. aurata – P. bhutanensis – P. brunneipes – P. carolusi – P. corpulenta – P. crassipunctata – P. darjeelingensis – P. digambara – P. discalis – P. dorsalis – P. erosa – P. esakii – P. formosanensis – P. fuscipennis – P. gracilicornis – P. gressitti – P. griseovillosa – P. houjayi – P. huangshana – P. hupehensis – P. igai – P. ishiharai – P. jungchani – P. kaboureki – P. kambaitiensis – P. kawashimai – P. kobayashii – P. konishii – P. kwangtungensis – P. lineatipes – P. longipilosa – P. lopatini – P. lucka – P. lui – P. maculata – P. maculicollis – P. martensi – P. medvedevi – P. meifena – P. meihuai – P. metallica – P. nigromaculata – P. ningpoensis – P. ohbayashii – P. qianana – P. ruficollis – P. schillhammeri – P. scutellata – P. semifulva – P. shirozui – P. sikanga – P. silfverbergi – P. submetallica – P. sulcatipennis – P. tahsiangi – P. taiwana – P. takizawai – P. tatesuji – P. telnovi – P. tianmuensis – P. tibialis – P. tsoui – P. tuberculata – P. unicostata – P. viburni – P. viridipennis – P. wilcoxi – P. wulaiensis – P. xizangana – P. yasumatsui

In synonymy: P. humeralis – P. shaanxiana

Tricholochmaea species: T. ussuriensis
Name

Pyrrhalta Joannis, 1865: 82

Type species: Galeruca viburni Paykull, 1798
Synonyms

Decoomanius Laboissière, 1927: 55
Type species: Decoomanius limbatus Laboissière, 1927, by monotypy.
Chapalia Laboissière, 1929: 269
Type species: Chapalia jeanvoinei Laboissière, 1929, by monotypy.
Tricholochmaea Laboissière, 1932: 963 (as subgenus of Lochmaea)
Type species: Gallerucella semifulva Jacoby, 1885, by original designation.

Pyrrhalta viburni

References
Primary references

Joannis, L. de 1865. Monographie des Galérucides d'Europe, du Nord de l'Afrique et de l'Asie. Tribu des Galérucides proprement dites ou Isopodes. L'Abeille 3[1866]: 1–168. BHL. Reference page.
Laboissière, V. 1927. Contribution a l'étude des Galerucini de l'Indochine et du Yunnan avec descriptions de nouveaux genres et espèces (Col. Chrysomelidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 96: 37–62. Gallica.
Laboissière, V. 1929. Observations sur les Galerucini asiatiques principalement du Tonkin et du Yunnan et descriptions de nouveaux genres et espèces. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 98: 251–288. Gallica.
Laboissière, V. 1932. Galerucini de la collection du Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle recueillis dans l'Himalaya par le Dr. J. Harmand. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle (ser. 2) 4: 960–970. [not seen]

Additional references

Beenen, R. 2010. Galerucinae Latreille, 1802. Pp. 443–491. 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.
Bezděk, J. & Beenen, R. 2020. Taxonomical changes and comments on Palaearctic and Oriental Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 16(2): 319–327. DOI: 10.23885/181433262020162-319327 Open access. Reference page.
Bezděk, J. & Lee, C.-F. 2019. Revision of Pyrrhalta (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) species with maculate elytra. Zootaxa 4664(4): 518–534. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.4.4 Paywall. Reference page.
Lee, C.-F. & Bezděk, J. 2021. Revision of the genera Xanthogaleruca Laboissière, 1932 and Pyrrhalta Joannis, 1865 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) of Taiwan, with type designation of Galerucella lineatipes Takei. ZooKeys 1039: 1–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1039.64740 Open access. Reference page.
Matsumura, Y., Suenaga, H., Kamimura, Y. & Gorb, S.N. 2017. Traumatic mating by hand saw-like spines on the internal sac in Pyrrhalta maculicollis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae). Pp. 77–89 in: Chaboo, C.S. & Schmitt, M. (Eds) 2017. Research on Chrysomelidae 7. Zookeys 720: 1–137. Reference page. ZooKeys 720: 77–89. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.720.13015 Reference page.
Medvedev, L.N. 2017. New leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from New Guinea. Pp. 419–426, pl. 83. In: Telnov, D., Barclay, M.V.L. & Pauwels, O.S.G. (eds.) Biodiversity, biogeography and nature conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Volume III. The Entomological Society of Latvia, Riga. 658 pp. 172 pls. ISBN 978-9984-9768-8-4. BHL. Reference page.
Medvedev, L.N. 2019. New and poorly known Oriental Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera). Russian Entomological Journal 28(2): 165–168. DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.28.2.08 Open access. Reference page.
Nie, R.-E., Zhou, D-K., Xue, H-J. & Yang, X-K.. 2013. Notes on black elytron species of Pyrrhalta Joannis and the description of a new species from China (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae). ZooKeys 289: 41–56. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.289.4266 Open access. Reference page.
Romantsov, P.V. 2021. К познанию фауны жуков-листоедов (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) Восточной Сибири и юга Дальнего Востока России [On the Knowledge of the Leaf-Beetle Fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) of Siberia and the Russian Far East]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 100(1): 153–180. (in Russian). DOI: 10.31857/S036714452101010X Paywall. [English transl.: Entmological Review 101(1): 97–120. DOI: 10.1134/S0013873821010073 Paywall.] Reference page.
Takizawa, H. 2017. Leaf beetles of Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology 23(2): 195–233. Abstract (Facebook). Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Leaf Beetles

Pyrrhalta is a genus of beetles in the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae. Species are distributed throughout much of the world, including much of the Northern Hemisphere and the Australian region.[2]

The taxonomy of the genus is not clear. Species are separated from those of other genera by the sometimes inconsistent comparison of questionable characters, such as the distribution of minute hairs.[2] There is also little agreement on how to divide the group into subgenera. Former subgenera such as Xanthogaleruca are treated as separate genera by some authors, but not accepted as such by others.[2]

A definition of the genus used by some authors includes characters such as a hairy pronotum and elytra, gena (the spaces below the eyes) longer than the eyes themselves, and a labrum with a line of hairy pores.[3]

This is one of the largest genera of the leaf beetle subfamily Galerucinae, with about 111[4] to 115 species.[2]

A number of Pyrrhalta are considered pests.[5] The species Pyrrhalta viburni has received attention as a Eurasian beetle introduced to North America with the potential to do significant damage to native and cultivated viburnum plants.[6]

Species include:[2][3][5][7]

Pyrrhalta annulicornis
Pyrrhalta aurata
Pyrrhalta brevicornis
Pyrrhalta ceylonensis
Pyrrhalta darjeelingensis
Pyrrhalta digambara
Pyrrhalta esakii[8]
Pyrrhalta fuscipennis
Pyrrhalta huangshana
Pyrrhalta humeralis
Pyrrhalta indica
Pyrrhalta lineola
Pyrrhalta maculata
Pyrrhalta maculicollis
Pyrrhalta martensi
Pyrrhalta medvedevi[5]
Pyrrhalta meghalayana
Pyrrhalta metallica
Pyrrhalta nila
Pyrrhalta orientalis
Pyrrhalta prokofievi[9]
Pyrrhalta quianana[2]
Pyrrhalta scutellata
Pyrrhalta subaeanea
Pyrrhalta sulcatipennis
Pyrrhalta tatesuji
Pyrrhalta tianmuensis
Pyrrhalta viburni - viburnum leaf beetle
Pyrrhalta warchalowskii[3]
Pyrrhalta xizangana

See also

Xanthogaleruca luteola - elm leaf beetle

References

Lee, C.-F.; Bezděk, J. (2021). "Revision of the genera Xanthogaleruca Laboissière, 1932 and Pyrrhalta Joannis, 1865 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) of Taiwan, with type designation of Galerucella lineatipes Takei". ZooKeys. 1039: 1–108. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1039.64740.
Nie, R. E., et al. (2013). Notes on black elytron species of Pyrrhalta Joannis and the description of a new species from China (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae). ZooKeys 289 41-56.
Bezděk, J. (2007). Notes on the Galerucini from India and Sri Lanka, with description of Pyrrhalta warchalowskii n. sp. from Tamil Nadu state, India (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Archived 2015-12-25 at the Wayback Machine Genus: 18(4) 603-12.
Huai-jun, X. and Y. Xing-ke. (2010). Species catalogue of Pyrrhalta Joannis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of the world. Entomotaxonomia.
Sprecher-Uebersax, E. and S. Zoia. (2002). Pyrrhalta medvedevi sp. nov., a new species from the Nepal Himalayas (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 75 161-67.
Majka, C. G. and L. LeSage. (2007). Introduced leaf beetles of the maritime provinces, 3: The viburnum leaf beetle, Pyrrhalta viburni (Paykull) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Proceedings - Entomological Society of Washington 109(2), 454-62.
Park, J. Y. and J. E. Lee. (2004). A taxonomic study on the larvae of the genus Pyrrhalta Joannis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Korea. Entomological Research 34(4) 229-34.
Satoh, A. (2002). Within-plant distribution of the eggs and larvae of two congeneric chrysomelid beetles on the same host plant. Entomological Science 5(2), 171-78.
Skomorokhov, M. O. (2011). To the knowledge of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from the islands of southern Vietnam. Russian Entomological Journal 20(2) 197-99.