Revision of Charaea (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of South India

The Genus Charaea (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of the Islands of Java, Bali and Borneo

“…coomani species-group were keyed by Romantsov (2020). Another species-group containing four South Indian species was revised but not named by Bezděk & Viswajyothi (2019). Males of all species of this group share the lateral margins of the middle lobe of the last abdominal ventrite covered with very long setae.…”

“…The life history and host plants of the Charaea species from Java, Bali and Borneo are unknown. In general, the adults of Charaea are floricolous and pollen feeders (Bezděk & Lee 2014, Bezděk & Viswajyothi 2019).…”

“…Bezděk & Nie (2019) published new synonymy in Chinese Charaea species. Bezděk & Viswajyothi (2019) revised South Indian species, described three new species and synonymised Cneorides Jacoby, 1896 with Charaea. Three new species from Vietnam and one from Sumatra were added by Romantsov (2018Romantsov ( , 2020 and Nguyen et al (2021).…”

“…Bezděk (2012) transferred six more species to Charaea . Recently, revisions of Charaea from Taiwan (Bezděk & Lee 2014), the Philippines (Bezděk 2015) and southeastern Asia (Bezděk 2017) were published. One new species was described by Takizawa (2017) from Malaysia (Sabah) but its position in Charaea is discussed in present paper.…”