Beltia
Genus of beetles
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Beltia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from the Neotropical realm. It was first erected by Martin Jacoby in 1881 for a single species from Nicaragua. In 2018, it was redefined to include fourteen new species from Central America and northwestern South America, as well as four species transferred from Colaspoides.[2]
| Beltia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Eumolpini |
| Genus: | Beltia Jacoby, 1881[1] |
| Type species | |
| Beltia nicaraguensis Jacoby, 1881 | |
Species
- Beltia angustomarginata (Bechyné, 1953)[3] – central Panama
- Beltia awapita Flowers, 2018[2] – northwestern Ecuador
- Beltia chiriquensis (Jacoby, 1882)[1] – central Costa Rica to eastern Panama
- Beltia confusa Flowers, 2018[2] – Amazonian Peru
- Beltia gorgona Flowers, 2018[2] – Pacific coast of Colombia
- Beltia herreri Flowers, 2018[2] – northwestern Costa Rica, northwestern Panama
- Beltia ledesmae Flowers, 2018[2] – Ecuador west of the Andes
- Beltia napoensis Flowers, 2018[2] – Ecuador, Peru, Colombia (collected along the Napo River)
- Beltia nicaraguensis Jacoby, 1881[1] – southern Nicaragua, northern Costa Rica
- Beltia osa Flowers, 2018[2] – Costa Rica–Panama border
- Beltia placidula (Bechyné, 1950)[4] – Amazonian region of northern Peru
- Beltia rugosa Flowers, 2018[2] – Pacific coast of Colombia
- Beltia sanchezae Flowers, 2018[2] – Costa Rica (Cordillera de Talamanca)
- Beltia talaga Flowers, 2018[2] – eastern slope of the Ecuadorian Andes
- Beltia tilarana Flowers, 2018[2] – Costa Rica (Cordillera de Tilarán)
- Beltia tisingalita Flowers, 2018[2] – Costa Rica–Panama border (Cordillera de Talamanca)
- Beltia tsachila Flowers, 2018[2] – western slope of the Ecuadorian Andes
- Beltia vacilona Flowers, 2018[2] – Costa Rica
- Beltia weyrauchi (Bechyné, 1950)[4] – eastern Peruvian Andes