Trichostola
Genus of leaf beetles from the Mascarene Islands and Africa
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Trichostola is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[2] It is distributed on the Mascarene Islands. Some species placed in the genus have also been described from mainland Africa and Madagascar, but according to Jan Bechyné (1957) these actually belong to other genera.[3] Additionally, some species described from Australia were placed in the genus by Julius Weise in 1923, but these are also considered to be misplaced.
| Trichostola | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Euryopini |
| Genus: | Trichostola Chapuis, 1874[1] |
| Type species | |
| Trichostola vestita (= Trichostola chapuisi Jacoby, 1898) Chapuis, 1874 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Trichostola Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836 | |
Species
Species described from Réunion and Mauritius:[3]
- Trichostola alluaudi Jacoby, 1898[4] – Mauritius
- Trichostola aurata Jacoby, 1898[4] – Mauritius
- Trichostola berliozi Bechyné, 1957
- Trichostola callitrichia Bechyné, 1957 – Mauritius
- Trichostola cariei Berlioz, 1915 – Mauritius
- Trichostola chapuisi Jacoby, 1898[4] – Réunion
- Trichostola chrysoptera Bechyné, 1957 – Mauritius
- Trichostola collaris Berlioz, 1915
- Trichostola cribricollis Berlioz, 1915 – Mauritius
- Trichostola emmerezi Berlioz, 1915 – Mauritius
- Trichostola evops Berlioz, 1915
- Trichostola fasciatipennis Jacoby, 1902[5] – Mauritius
- Trichostola femoralis Jacoby, 1902[5] – Mauritius
- Trichostola intermedia Berlioz, 1915 – Mauritius
- Trichostola mameti Bechyné, 1957 – Mauritius
- Trichostola ornata Berlioz, 1915 – Mauritius, Réunion
- Trichostola perilampina Bechyné, 1957 – Mauritius
- Trichostola pilula Berlioz, 1915 – Mauritius
- Trichostola striatipennis Jacoby, 1898[4] – Mauritius
- Trichostola tenuepunctata Berlioz, 1915 – Mauritius
- Trichostola thoracica Jacoby, 1902[5] – Mauritius
- Trichostola umbilicata Bechyné, 1957 – Mauritius
- Trichostola variegata Jacoby, 1898[4] – Mauritius
- Trichostola vestita (Boheman, 1858)
- Trichostola vinsoni Bechyné, 1957 – Mauritius
Species described from Rodrigues Island:
- Trichostola pauliani Vinson, 1961 (nomen nudum)
Species described from mainland Africa and Madagascar (to be placed in other genera):
- Trichostola capensis Lefèvre, 1890 – South Africa, now placed in Lucignolo
- Trichostola fuscitarsis Chapuis, 1879[6] – Ethiopia, Somalia
- Trichostola grandis Fairmaire, 1901 – Madagascar, now placed in Pseudostola[7]
- Trichostola grossa Harold, 1878 – Tanzania
- Trichostola lefevrei Jacoby, 1898 – South Africa
- Trichostola magnicollis Fairmaire, 1886 – Djibouti
Species described from Australia (or Trichostola Weise, 1923)[8]