Lesageana paucispina Medvedev, 2003 is placed into synonymy with Trichispa sericea (Guérin-Méneville, 1844), new synonymy. Resulting in the synonymy of the genera Trichispa Chapuis, 1875 and Lesageana Medvedev, 2003 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), new synonymy

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CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FLLesageana Medvedev, 2003 a new synonym of Trichispa Chapuis, 1875(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)C. L. StainesDepartment of Entomology, MRC 187National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian InstitutionWashington, DC 20013-7012, U.S.A.Date of Issue: April 15, 2011INSECTAMUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics0170C. L. StainesLesageana Medvedev, 2003 a new synonym of Trichispa Chapuis, 1875 (Coleoptera:Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)Insecta Mundi 0170: 1-2Published in 2011 byCenter for Systematic Entomology, Inc.P. O. Box 141874Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 U. S. A.http://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org/Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published onany non-marine arthropod. Topics considered for publication include systematics, taxonomy,  nomencla-ture, checklists, faunal works, and natural history. 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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CreativeCommons, Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, dis-tribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/10170: 1-2 2011Lesageana Medvedev, 2003 a new synonym of Trichispa Chapuis, 1875(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)C. L. StainesDepartment of Entomology, MRC 187National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian InstitutionWashington, DC 20013-7012, U.S.A.stainesc@si.eduAbstract. Lesageana paucispina Medvedev, 2003 is placed into synonymy with Trichispa sericea (Guérin-Méneville,1844), new synonymy. Resulting in the synonymy of the genera Trichispa Chapuis, 1875 and Lesageana Medvedev,2003 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), new synonymy.Key words. Lesageana; Trichispa; synonymy; Coleoptera; Chrysomelidae.Medvedev (2003: 152) erected the genus Lesageana for the new species paucispina Medvedev fromGuinea (holotype: Guinea, Dubreka, X.1987, leg. H. Chiasson, deposited in the L. LeSage collection) andplaced it in the tribe Hispini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). The original description compares it to the twomonotypic genera Callanispa Uhmann, 1959 (type species: C. rasa Uhmann, 1959 from South Africa) andThomispa Würmli, 1975a (type species: Trichispa feae Gestro, 1905 from St. Thomé Island (currentlycalled São Tomé and Príncipe)). However, in the key to the Old World genera of Hispini (Würmli 1975b),Lesageana keys to couplet 20 containing Trichispa Chapuis, 1875 (type species: Hispa sericea Guérin-Méneville, 1844 with a single species known from Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia,Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tan-zania, Togo, Uganda, and Zaire) and Philodonta Weise, 1904 (type species: Philodonta modesta Weise,1904 with three species: P. chirinda Maulik, 1919 known from Congo, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe; P.modesta Weise, 1904 known from India and Pakistan; and Philodonta tuberculata (Pic, 1924) knownfrom Congo, Ivory Coast, and Rwanda). From the description of Lesageana I could find no characters toseparate Lesageana from Trichispa.While working on an updated key to the hispine genera of the world, I requested the type of L.paucispina from L. LeSage. He stated (pers. comm.) that the type of Lesageana was likely destroyed in afire at his house in 2006 but might still be in the possession of Medvedev in Moscow.Medvedev (pers. comm.) stated that the type was returned to LeSage and he was sorry to hear of thefire that destroyed it. He agreed with my assessment that Lesageana was indistinguishable from Trichispasaying that his erection of Lesageana was based on a single misidentified specimen of T. sericea.Therefore, I am proposing, with Medvedev’s cordial agreement, the following nomenclatural acts:Trichispa Chapuis, 1875: 331. Type species: Hispa sericea Guérin-Méneville, 1844: 268.Lesageana Medvedev, 2003: 152. Type species: Lesageana paucispina Medvedev, 2003: 152. NewSynonymy.Hispa sericea Guérin-Méneville, 1844: 268. Type: Madagascar, depository unknown.Trichispa sericea (Guérin-Méneville): Chapuis 1875: 332 (transfer).Lesageana paucispina Medvedev, 2003: 152. Type: Guinea, Dubreka, type destroyed. New Synonymy.AcknowledgmentsSusan L. Staines provided constant encouragement and proof-read the manuscript. Without herassistance this project would never have occurred. Alexander S. Konstaninov and Natalia J. Vandenberg,Systematic Entomology Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, provided helpful com-ments on earlier drafts of this manuscript. Their help is greatly appreciated.2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0170, April 2011 STAINESLiterature CitedChapuis, F. 1875. Famille des Phytophages. In: J. T. Lacordaire. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Generades Coléoptères, Vol. 11, Encyclopédique de Roret; Paris. 420 p.Gestro, R. 1905. Materiali per lo studio delle Hispidae XXIX. Viaggio di Leonardo Fea nell’AfricaOccidentale. Hispidae. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 42: 501-557.Guérin-Méneville, F. E. 1844. Iconographie du régne animal de G. Cuvier, vol. 7, insects. J. B. Baillière;Paris. 576 p., 104 pl.Maulik, S. 1919. New Hispinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)4: 407-411.Medvedev, L. N. 2003. New taxa of Chrysomelidae from Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Insecta,Coleoptera). Spixiana 26(2): 149-153.Pic, M. 1924. Nouveautés diverses. Mélanges Exotico-Entomologiques 42: 1-32.Uhmann, E. 1959. Callanispa rasa gen. nov., spec. nov. aus Südafrika. 195. Beitrag zur Kenntnis derHispinae (Coleopt.: Chrysomelidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa 22: 229-232.Weise, J. 1904. Zwei neue Hispiden aus Ostindien. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1904: 404.Würmli, M. 1975a. Thomispa, eine Neue Gattung der Hispinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea) von derInsel Sao Tome. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel 25: 33-36.Würmli, M. 1975b. Gattungmonographie der altweltlichen Hispinen (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae:Hispinae). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 26: 1-83.Received February 8, 2011; Accepted March 10, 2011.

Lesageana Medvedev, 2003 a new synonym of Trichispa Chapuis, 1875 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)

Staines, C. L. (2011): Lesageana Medvedev, 2003 a new synonym of Trichispa Chapuis, 1875 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Insecta Mundi 2011 (170): 1-2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.516065

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