Omophoita Chevrolat, 1836

Begha, Bruno Piotrovski, Anjos, Camila Alves Dos, Santos, Mateus Henrique & Prado, Laura Rocha, 2023, Checklist of Omophoita Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) and diagnoses for some species from southern Brazil: notes on the taxonomic history, redescriptions and new records, Zootaxa 5357 (3), pp. 375-397 : 383

Omophoita Chevrolat, 1836

Omophoita Chevrolat 1836: 386 ; d’Orbigny 1847: 101; Chevrolat 1849: 6 (Subsequent type-species designation, Chrysomela aequinoctialis Linnaeus, 1787 ); Clark,1866: 376; Blackwelder 1945: 707; Bechyné 1955a: 1; Monrós & Bechyné 1956: 1134; Bechyné 1963: 238; Bechyné & Bechyné 1963: 60 ( Homophoeta is treated as a synonym of Omophoita ); Bechyné & 1976: 550; Seeno et al. 1976: 31; Bechyné & Bechyné 1977: 112; Seeno & Wilcox 1982: 140; Duckett & Kjer 2000: 119; Bousquet & Bouchard 2013: 125; Konstantinov et al. 2022: 37; Bechyné & Bechyné’s unpublished catalog: 290.

Bechyné

= Homophoeta Erichson 1847: 172 ; Clark 1866: 376; Harold 1876: 76; Jacoby 1880a: 405; Horn 1889: 195; Jacoby 1880c: 315; Heikertinger 1924: 56; Heikertinger 1925: 56; Blackwelder 1945: 707; Bechyné 1955a: 1; Scherer 1962: 537; Bechyné 1963: 238

= Homophoita Weise 1921: 140 ; Blackwelder 1945: 707

= Longasphaera Bechyné 1955c: 184 ; Scherer 1962: 534; Duckett & Kjer 2000: 120; Duckett 2004: 652.

Morphological synopsis: Body oval. Labrum with more than four horizontally placed setae. Head with rounded pale macula, either limited to the antennal calli or extending to the vertex. Metafemur fusiform, width with nearly half the length of the metatibia. Fourth visible metatarsomere moderately globose, fusiform.

Regarding morphological characters, Omophoita is part of the Asphaera group within Oedionychina , according to Konstantinov et al. 2022. The following updated descriptions will focus on the morphological peculiarities of each species.