Mimastra Baly, 1865

Bezděk, Jan, 2009, Revisional study on the genus Mimastra (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae): Species with unmodified protarsomeres in male. Part 1., Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (2), pp. 819-840 : 820-821

Genus Mimastra Baly, 1865

Mimastra Baly, 1865: 253 . Type species: Mimastra arcuata Baly, 1865 , by original designation.

Anthraxantha Fairmaire, 1878 in DEYROLLE & FAIRMAIRE (1878):137. Type species: Anthraxantha davidis Fairmaire, 1878 , by monotypy. Synonymised with Mimastra by JACOBY (1888): 351.

Brachita Allard, 1889: 103 . Type species: Brachita terminata Allard, 1889 , by subsequent designation ( GRESSITT & KIMOTO 1963: 535). Synonymised with Mimastra by ALLARD (1890): 80.

Differential diagnosis. Mimastra can be distinguished from other externally similar genera (especially Hoplasoma Jacoby, 1884 and Haplosomoides Duvivier, 1890 ) by the combination of the following characters: body moderately elongate, parallel or slightly divergent posteriad, glabrous (usually with very fine scarce hairs in the posterior third of elytra), antennae filiform, pronotum with transverse depression, anterior and posterior margins of pronotum bordered, anterior coxal cavities opened posteriorly, posterior tibiae without spines, claws appendiculate.

Distribution. Indian subcontinent, China and South-East Asia (southwards to Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo and the Philippines).