''Tanybria'' is a genus of
leaf beetle
The beetle family Chrysomelidae, commonly known as leaf beetles, includes over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making it one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle families. Numerous s ...
s in the subfamily
Eumolpinae
The Eumolpinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae. It is one of the largest subfamilies of leaf beetles, including more than 500 genera and 7000 species. They are oval, and convex in form, and measure up to 10 mm in size. ...
.
It is distributed in
Africa
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.
''Tanybria'' was originally known as ''Eubrachis'', in the sense of , who gave a description of the genus in 1940. However, this name was unavailable, as it was preoccupied by ''Eubrachis'' as first used by
Dejean in his catalogue in 1836 (as an unnecessary replacement name for ''
Pseudocolaspis''), and ''Eubrachis'' in the sense of
Joseph Sugar Baly
Joseph Sugar Baly (1816 – 27 March 1890) was an English medical doctor and entomologist. He described a number of species of beetle in the family Chrysomelidae.
Baly was born in Warwick, first son of Joseph Baly. He studied at the local gramm ...
in 1878 (now a synonym of ''
Macrocoma
''Macrocoma'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains about 100 species, which are found in tropical Africa, around the Mediterranean, on the Canary Islands, in western and central Asia, and in India.
''Macrocoma'' i ...
''). Because of this, Burgeon's ''Eubrachis'' was renamed to ''Tanybria'' by Brian J. Selman in 1963.
Species
* ''
Tanybria apicalis''
( Jacoby, 1881)
* ''
Tanybria aurichalcea''
( J. Thomson, 1858)
* ''
Tanybria bipilis''
(Burgeon, 1940)
* ''
Tanybria costata''
( Jacoby, 1898)
* ''
Tanybria cupreomarginata''
( Jacoby, 1895)
* ''
Tanybria eximia''
( Baly, 1877)
* ''
Tanybria kivuensis''
(Burgeon, 1940)
* ''
Tanybria spinipes''
( Baly, 1878)
* ''
Tanybria timiliatha''
( J. Thomson, 1858)
* ''
Tanybria tuberculata''
( Jacoby, 1903)
References
Eumolpinae
Chrysomelidae genera
Beetles of Africa
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