Serraticollini
''Aulacothorax'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are currently 51 described species in ''Aulacothorax'' found worldwide, 40 of which are found in the Indomalayan realm. Historically considered a problematic member of the tribe Alticini (the flea beetles), the genus is now classified in its own tribe, Serraticollini. History of research The genus was originally created in 1858 for a single species described from Tahiti, ''Aulacothorax exilis'', which was placed in Scydmaenidae (now considered a subfamily of Staphylinidae). Recently, the holotype of this species was rediscovered in the collections of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and it was found to belong to the genus ''Orthaltica''. ''Aulacothorax'' is the earliest available name for the genus, so the genus ''Orthaltica'' was formally placed in synonymy with it in 2017. Historically, the genus ''Aulacothorax'' (or ''Orthaltica'') was classified as a member of the subfamily Alticinae, later ...
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