Acronymolpus
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| Acronymolpus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Eumolpini |
| Genus: | Acronymolpus Samuelson, 2015[1] |
| Type species | |
| Acronymolpus joliveti ( = Stethotes jourdani Jolivet, Verma & Mille, 2013) Samuelson, 2015[1] | |
| Species | |
Acronymolpus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[2] It is endemic to New Caledonia. There are two species placed in the genus, both of which are sexually dimorphic; the females are large and reddish, and the males are small and black.[3] A member of the tribe Eumolpini, Acronymolpus is distinguished from other members of the tribe in New Caledonia by its enlarged metacoxae (coxae of the hind legs), which occupy most of the first abdominal ventrite and nearly reach its posterior margin.[1]
Acronymolpus was first proposed by Dr. G. Allan Samuelson of the Bishop Museum, who published a description of the genus in the online journal ZooKeys in 2015. The genus name is a combination of the Latin prefix acro- (meaning "pointed, first, high"), "nyma" (given as meaning "name") and the prefix "-molpus" (from Eumolpus, the type genus of the subfamily Eumolpinae), and has a masculine gender. The genus originally contained four new species, all described by the same author.[1] These four species were later found to be the female and male forms of two previously described species placed in Stethotes. These two Stethotes species were then transferred to Acronymolpus in 2017, taking priority over the original four species placed in the genus.[3]