Eupetale

{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from South America}}

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| taxon = Eupetale

| display_parents = 2

| authority = Flowers, 2021{{cite journal|last=Flowers|first=R.W.|year=2021|title=A New Genus for Two Orphaned Species of Lycaste Gistel (Coleoptera: Chryssomelidae: Eumolpinae)|url=http://zoobank.org/?lsid=urn:lsid:zoobank.org:CBC66636-0058-4B2B-9F92-939A91C626A9|journal=The Coleopterists Bulletin|volume=75|issue=3|pages=700–701|doi=10.1649/0010-065X-75.3.700|s2cid=245386230 }}

| type_species = Lycaste trichoa

| type_species_authority = Gistel, 1848{{cite journal|last1=Monrós|first1=F.|last2=Bechyné|first2=J.|year=1956|title=Uber einige verkannte Chrysomeliden-Namen|journal=Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey|url=http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1956_Separata_117.pdf|volume=7|pages=1118–1137|access-date=2019-02-06|archive-date=2018-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027021711/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1956_Separata_117.pdf|url-status=dead}}

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Eupetale is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains two species known from South America.

The original name used for this genus was Lycaste Gistel, 1848, which was later found to be an unnecessary new replacement name for Chalcophana. Additionally, Lycaste Gistel, 1848 is a junior homonym of Lycaste Gistel, 1834 in Buprestidae (a synonym of Polycesta), and Lycaste Agassiz, 1846 in Crustacea (an emendation of Lycesta Savigny, 1816, which is a synonym of Leucothoe).{{cite journal|last=Bezděk|first=J.|year=2020|title=Review of the genus-level names proposed by Johannes Gistel in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera)|journal=Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae|volume=60|issue=1|pages=173–188|doi=10.37520/aemnp.2020.011|doi-access=free}} In 2021, Flowers proposed a new name for the genus, Eupetale, for the two species formerly placed in Lycaste Gistel, 1848. Under the name Lycaste, Callicolaspis was formerly considered a synonym of the genus, but in 2003 Callicolaspis was restored as a separate genus.{{cite journal|last=Flowers|first=R. W.|year=2003|title=Notes on the genus Lycaste Gistl, and resurrection of Callicolaspis Bechyné (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16212472|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|volume=105|issue=4|pages=925–932}}