''Acrothinium gaschkevitchii'' is a species of
leaf beetle in the family
Chrysomelidae
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...
. It is distributed in
East Asia.
Etymology
The species is named after the wife of Russian diplomat
Iosif Goshkevich
Iosif Antonovich Goshkevich (russian: link=no, Иосиф Антонович Гошкевич) (April 16, 1814, in Minsk Governorate
The Minsk Governorate (russian: Минская губерния, Belarusian: ) or Government of Minsk was a g ...
. She had collected specimens of the species in the vicinity of her residence at "Khokodody" in Japan.
Subspecies
There are five subspecies of ''A. gaschkevitchii'':
* ''Acrothinium gaschkevitchii gaschkevitchii''
( Motschulsky, 1861) – China (
Fujian,
Jiangxi,
Zhejiang),
Taiwan,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
,
South Korea
* ''Acrothinium gaschkevitchii matsuii''
Nakane, 1956 – Japan (
Okinoerabu)
* ''Acrothinium gaschkevitchii okinawense''
Nakane, 1985 – Japan (
Okinawa)
* ''Acrothinium gaschkevitchii shirakii''
Nakane, 1956 – Japan (
Amami Ōshima,
Okinawa)
* ''Acrothinium gaschkevitchii tokaraense''
Nakane, 1956 – Japan (
Tokara Islands)
References
External links
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Eumolpinae
Beetles of Asia
Taxa named by Victor Motschulsky
Beetles described in 1861
Insects of Japan
Insects of China
Insects of Taiwan
Insects of Korea
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