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Issue: Vol. 1363 No. 1: 23 Nov. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-11-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1363.1.4
Page range: 49–68
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 22

Notes on identity, new synonymy and larva of Ivalia Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with description of a new species

Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution P.O. Box 37012, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20013-7012, U.S.A.
Department of Entomology, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellayani P.O., Trivandrum 695 522, Kerala, India
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, c/o Smithsonian Institution P.O. Box 37012, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20013-7012, U.S.A.
Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Ivalia Taizonia Amphimeloides moss feeding larval sensilla new species

Abstract

Genus Ivalia Jacoby is characterized morphologically, and Amphimeloides Jacoby syn. nov. and Taizonia Chen syn. nov. are junior synonyms with it. Several Ivalia species are figured, including Ivalia bella (Chen) comb. nov., I. dorsalis (Jacoby) comb. nov., and I. viridipennis Jacoby. A new species of Ivalia from the Nilgiri Hills in south India, I. korakundah sp. nov., is described and illustrated, including the larvae. Larvae were associated with adults by sequencing a fragment of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase I. Larval morphology is discussed and compared with that of other flea beetles.

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