Chalcosicya
{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from the West Indies and Mexico}}
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| taxon = Chalcosicya
| authority = Blake, 1930{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1930|title=Synonymies of Antillean Chrysomelidae, with descriptions of new species|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50587678|journal=Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society|volume=25|pages=209–223}}
| display_parents = 2
| type_species = Chalcosicya maestrensis
| type_species_authority = Blake, 1930
}}
Chalcosicya is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is mainly known from the West Indies, though one species is found in southern Mexico. It has recently been thought to be a sister genus to the Mediterranean Colaspidea, with Colaspina as a sister genus to the former two combined.{{cite journal|last=Flowers|first=R. Wills|year=2012|title=Chalcosicya maya n. sp, a new Mexican species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) and its implications for morphology and biogeography|url=http://journals.fcla.edu/mundi/article/download/0209/74464|journal=Insecta Mundi|issue=209|pages=1–9|access-date=2018-12-21|archive-date=2018-12-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221182446/http://journals.fcla.edu/mundi/article/download/0209/74464|url-status=dead}}
The genus was first erected by the American entomologist Doris Holmes Blake in 1930 for a single new species from Cuba. In subsequent publications by Blake, she described more than 20 additional species of the genus from various islands in the West Indies. In 2012, a species of Chalcosicya was described from southern Mexico by R. Wills Flowers, expanding the range of the genus to the mainland of North America.
Beetles in the genus are small in size (less than 4 mm) and have a robust, ovate body. They have a black, dark bronze, green or blue color, and are covered in scale-like hairs or setae.
Species
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- Chalcosicya acuminata Blake, 1951{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1951|title=A revision of the beetles of the genus Chalcosicya Blake (Chrysomelidae) from the West Indies|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28878414|journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology|volume=106|issue=7|pages=287–317}}
- Chalcosicya alayoi Blake, 1960{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1958|publication-date=July 29, 1960|title=Some New West Indian Eumolpid Beetles|journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology|volume=65|issue=4|pages=91–98|doi=10.1155/1958/64819|doi-access=free}}
- Chalcosicya androsensis Blake, 1965{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1965|title=Twelve new species of chrysomelid beetles from the West Indies (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)|url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/3315//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N2217.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|journal=American Museum Novitates|issue=2217|pages=1–13|hdl=2246/3315}}
- Chalcosicya aptera Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya constanzae Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya convexa Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya crotonis (Fabricius, 1792)
- Chalcosicya crotonis var. acuta Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya crotonis var. angularis Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya crotonis var. parguerensis Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya crotonis var. septentrionalis Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya darlingtoni Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya ditrichota Blake, 1938{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1938|title=Eight new species of West Indian Chrysomelidae|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57052232|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|volume=40|issue=2|pages=44–52}}
- Chalcosicya eleutherae Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya farri Blake, 1966{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1966|title=Ten new chrysomelid beetles form the West Indies and Key West|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26389079|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|volume=68|issue=3|pages=213–222}}
- Chalcosicya fraterna Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya gemina Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya glabra Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya grandis Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya humeralis Blake, 1971{{cite journal|last=Blake|first=D. H.|year=1971|title=Fifteen new West Indian chrysomelid beetles|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16245980|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|volume=73|issue=3|pages=269–282}}
- Chalcosicya insularis (Blatchley, 1922)
- Chalcosicya maestrensis Blake, 1930
- Chalcosicya maya Flowers, 2012
- Chalcosicya nana (Suffrian, 1866)
- Chalcosicya parsoni Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya parvula Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya plana Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya rotundata Blake, 1938
- Chalcosicya semicostata Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya senilis Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya setosella Blake, 1971
- Chalcosicya teres Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya truncata Blake, 1951
- Chalcosicya villosa Blake, 1951
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Synonyms:
- Chalcosicya costata Blake, 1938 is a synonym of Chalcosicya insularis (Blatchley, 1922)
References
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Category:Beetles of North America
Category:Insects of the Caribbean
Category:Taxa named by Doris Holmes Blake
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