Paracupta (Chalcotaenia) Deyrolle, 1864

Frank, David, 2024, Revision of the subgenus Chalcotaenia of Paracupta (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae) and specification of Buprestis xanthocera Boisduval, 1835 as the type-species of the genus Paracupta, Zootaxa 5555 (4), pp. 535-568 : 541

Paracupta (Chalcotaenia) Deyrolle, 1864

Chalcotoenia [sic!] Deyrolle (1864): 12 (original description in key to genera); Gemminger & Harold (1869): 1356 (catalogue, as synonym of Chalcophora ); Saunders (1871): 15 (catalogue); Kerremans (1892): 43 (catalogue); Kerremans (1893): 105 (key to genera); Kerremans (1903): 76 (catalogue); Heyne & Taschenberg (1908): 133 (noted); Kerremans (1909): 1 (monograph), 3–4 (key to species); Carter (1921): 304 (key to genera); Obenberger (1926): 145 (catalogue); Carter (1929): 301 (catalogue); Matthews (1985): 4, 24 (pictorial key to genera); Bellamy (1985): 415 (catalogue); Bellamy (1986): 594 (catalogue); Hołyński (1993): 13 (catalogue), 21 (phylogeny); Volkovitsh (2001): 66 (classification, phylogeny); Bellamy (2002): 51 (catalogue); Hołyński (2009): 264 (as synonym of Paracupta ); Williams, Mitchell & Sundholm (2024): 66 (monograph, noted).

Chrysodema (Chalcotaenia) : Théry (1926): 66 (key to subgenera).

Paracupta (Chalcotaenia) : Hołyński (1997): 184 (classification, phylogeny), 188 (catalogue); Bellamy (2003): 33 (catalogue); Bellamy (2008): 501 (catalogue); Hołyński (2014): 405 (key to subgenera), 408 ( Fig. 4 ), 410 (classification, remarks).

Type-species: Chrysodema lamberti Laporte de Castelnau & Gory, 1837 by monotypy.

Figures

FIGURES 1–7. 1–3, 7—Paracupta (Paracupta) xanthocera (Boisduval, 1835) (lectotype, ♀ 27.00 mm, MNHN). 4–6—P. (P.) leveri Théry, 1934 (holotype, ♀ 27.25 mm, BMNH) = P. (P.) xanthocera. 1, 4—dorsal view; 2, 5—ventral view; 3—lateral view; 6, 7—labels.