Fidia

For the leaf beetle genus from the New World, see Neofidia.

For the car, see Iso Fidia.

Fidia (formerly known as Lypesthes) is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.^[3][4] It is distributed in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa.^[5][6]

Fidia
Fidia atra, Japan
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Bromiini
Genus:	Fidia Motschulsky, 1861[1]
Type species
Fidia atra Motschulsky, 1861
Synonyms
Endoxus Baly, 1861 (misspelling of Adoxus) Leprotes Baly, 1863[2] Lypesthes Baly, 1863[2] Talmonus Fairmaire, 1889

Taxonomic history

See also: Neofidia

In 1861, Victor Motschulsky described a new species of beetle from Japan with the name Fidia atra. In 1863, Joseph Sugar Baly designated Fidia atra as the type species of a newly established genus with the name Lypesthes. In a 2008 review of the New World genus Fidia Baly, 1863, it was determined that Motschulsky's species description made the name Fidia available first, meaning that Lypesthes Baly, 1863 is a junior synonym of Fidia Motschulsky, 1861 and that Fidia Baly, 1863 is a junior homonym.^[7]

An application to suppress Fidia Motschulsky, 1861 (with the year incorrectly given as "1860") and conserve usage of Fidia Baly, 1863 and Lypesthes Baly, 1863 was submitted to the ICZN in 2006. This proposal was rejected by the commission in 2009, upholding the priority of Fidia Motschulsky, 1861.^[8] Following this ruling, Fidia Baly, 1863 was renamed to Neofidia in 2020.^[1]

Species

There are 33 species currently recognised in the genus Fidia:^[1]

Subgenus Fidia Motschulsky, 1861

• Fidia albida (Pic, 1923)^[9]
• Fidia atra Motschulsky, 1861
• Fidia basalis (Chen, 1940)
• Fidia bicoloripes (Pic, 1936)
• Fidia bisquamosa (Chen, 1935)
• Fidia brancuccii (Medvedev, 1993)
• Fidia carinata (Eroshkina, 1992)
• Fidia fulva (Baly, 1878)
• Fidia gracilicornis (Baly, 1861)
• Fidia impressa (Pic, 1928)^[10][6]
• Fidia indica (Jacoby, 1908)
• Fidia irregularis (Eroshkina, 1992)
• Fidia itoi (Chûjô, 1954)^[11]
• Fidia japonica (Ohno, 1958)
• Fidia kiiensis (Ohno, 1958)
• Fidia laeta (Medvedev, 2007)^[12]
• Fidia lewisi (Baly, 1878)
• Fidia mausonica (Eroshkina, 1992)
• Fidia medvedevi Kumari et al., 2020
• Fidia perelegans (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961)
• Fidia phoebicola (Tan, 1983)
• Fidia picea (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961)
• Fidia regalis (Medvedev & Zoia, 1996)^[13]
• Fidia rufa (Pic, 1924)^[14][6]
• Fidia shirozui (Kimoto, 1969)^[15]
• Fidia sinensis (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961)
• Fidia striata (Eroshkina, 1992)
• Fidia submaculata (Pic, 1924)^[14]
• Fidia subregularis (Pic, 1923)^[9]
• Fidia sulcatifrons (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1961)
• Fidia vietnamica (Eroshkina, 1992)
• Fidia vittata (Zhou & Tan, 1997)

Subgenus Lypesthinia Pic, 1939

• Fidia multidentata (Pic, 1939)