Systematic Catalog of the Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from Nepal and Bhutan
Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A, 3: 13-114, March 31, 2005 Systematic Catalog of the Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from Nepal and Bhutan Shinsaku Kimoto 7-97, Mikunigaoka, Ogori City, Fukuoka, 838-0103 (Received August 27, 2004; accepted December 2, 2004) Phytoph., I: 44 (Java). —Shresta, 1980, J. Nat. Hist. INTRODUCATION Mus., 4: 92 (Nepal). The Chrysomelidae is one of the major beetle fam Distribution: Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, ilies of Coleoptera. Probably more the 50,000 species of Laos, Vietnam, S. China, Malaya, Sumatra, Java. the family have been described from all over the world. All of them are phytophagous and many of them have Subfamily Megalopodinae been known as the destructive pest of agricultural plants. To save the space, the references cited under each Genus Colobaspis Fairmaire species treatment in the catalog are the orginal description and only those pertaining to Nepal and Bhutan. The Colobaspis nigriceps (Baly) synonyms described from Nepal or Bhutan, or used, at Temnaspis nigriceps Baly, 1859, Ann. Mag. Nat. least once, for the Nepalese or Bhutanese species, are cited. Hist., ser. 3, 3: 207 (Nepal). —Medvedev & Sprecher, The subfamilies follow systematic order, and genera and 1997, Coleoptera, Schwanfeld, 1: 204 (Nepal). species are arranged in alphabetically. Trinominals rep Distribution: Nepal, Laos resent subspecies. The locality names listed in the paragraph ofdistribu Colobaspis septemmaculata (Hope) Fig. If tion do not mean the names of nations, but indicate Megaloppus septemmaculata Hope, 1831, in Gray, merely the name of the area, such as "India", "Japan", and Zool. Misc.: 28 (Nepaul). "Ryukyu Is." are assined "The Indian Subcontinent", Temnaspis septemmaculata: Chujo, 1966, Mem.
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