Pseudotheopea

Pseudotheopea is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 20 described species in Pseudotheopea, found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic.^[1][2] It is closely related to the genus Theopea.

Pseudotheopea
Pseudotheopea smaragdina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Luperini
Subtribe:	Luperina
Genus:	Pseudotheopea Lee & Bezdek, 2020
Type species
Theopea sauteri Chûjô, 1935

Species

These 24 species belong to the genus Pseudotheopea, divided into three species groups (with five other species currently unassigned to any group):^[1][2]

Pseudotheopea sauteri group:

Pseudotheopea coerulea (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)

Pseudotheopea geiseri (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (India)

Pseudotheopea hainanensis (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (China)

Pseudotheopea laosensis (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (China, Laos, Vietnam)

Pseudotheopea sauteri (Chûjô, 1935) (Taiwan)

Pseudotheopea sekerkai (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (Laos)

Pseudotheopea costata group:

Pseudotheopea aeneipennis (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)

Pseudotheopea azurea (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)

Pseudotheopea boreri Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (India)

Pseudotheopea clypealis (Medvedev, 2015) (Vietnam)

Pseudotheopea costata (Allard, 1889) (Philippines)

Pseudotheopea gressitti Lee and Bezděk, 2020 (Philippines)

Pseudotheopea hsingtzungi Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos)

Pseudotheopea kimotoi Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam)

Pseudotheopea leehsuehae Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Laos)

Pseudotheopea smaragdina (Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963) (China)

Pseudotheopea sufangae Lee & Bezděk, 2020 (Taiwan)

Pseudotheopea similis group:

Pseudotheopea nigrita (Medvedev, 2007) (Thailand)

Pseudotheopea similis (Kimoto, 1989) (Laos, Vietnam)

Species unassigned to any species group:

Pseudotheopea aureoviridis (Chûjô, 1935) (Japan)

Pseudotheopea cheni (Lee & Bezděk, 2018) (Taiwan)

Pseudotheopea collaris (Kimoto, 1989) (Taiwan)

Pseudotheopea irregularis (Takizawa, 1978) (Taiwan)

Pseudotheopea kanmiyai (Kimoto, 1984) (Taiwan)