Yingaresca transversicollis ( Jacoby, 1886 ) Jacoby, 1886

Moura, Luciano De A., 2016, New species, new combinations and synonymies of Neotropical Galerucini (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae), Zootaxa 4066 (1), pp. 63-70 : 66

Yingaresca transversicollis ( Jacoby, 1886) , comb. nov.

Galerucella (?) transversicollis Jacoby, 1886:490 (sic!), Tab. 28, fig. 1. Neolochmaea (Neolochmaea) transversicollis ; Wilcox, 1971:115 (cat.). Neolochmaea transversicollis ; Wilcox, 1974:78 (cat.).

Galerucella transversicollis ; Moura 1998c:185, figs. 30–32.

Remarks. Jacoby (1886) described and included, although in dubiously, this species in Galerucella . Wilcox (1971, 1974) integrated Galerucella (?) transversicollis in the list of species of Neolochmaea . When revising Neolochmaea, Moura (1998c) examined the type-material deposited at the BMNH and, since the species does not share the diagnostic characters of the genus, decided to return it to Galerucella . When I more thoroughly analyzed the position of the species in Galerucella as proposed by Moura (1998c), I verified that it bears (1) small eyes, shorter than the length of the gena, (2) thin antennae, without enlarged antennomeres, and (3) carinae on the elytra; such characteristics are similar to those found in some species of Yingaresca [ Y. amazonica (Weise) and Y. batesi (Bowditch) ], both comprised in the batesi group according to Wilcox (1971). I therefore transfer G. tranversicollis to this genus. Strengthening the inclusion of the species in Yingaresca , Galerucella is a genus that still does not have a member with Neotropical distribution.