Tricliona is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains at least 35 species, and is distributed from India and Southern China to the Philippines and New Guinea.

In 2023, Tricliona was proposed as a synonym of Bathseba Motschulsky, 1866, while Tricliona foveipennis Bryant, 1950 (the only species described from New Guinea), was transferred to the genus Gressittella.

Tricliona

Species

The following species are placed in the genus:

Tricliona

Tricliona armata (Jacoby, 1889) Tricliona bakeri Moseyko, 2011 Tricliona bengalensis (Jacoby, 1908) Tricliona bicolor Jacoby, 1895 Tricliona bifasciata Jacoby, 1895 Tricliona ceylonensis Jacoby, 1908 Tricliona consobrina Chen, 1935 Tricliona costipennis Chen, 1935 Tricliona episternalis (Weise, 1922) Tricliona fasciata Lefèvre, 1885 Tricliona ferruginea (Weise, 1922) Tricliona fulvifrons Jacoby, 1899 Tricliona inconspicua Jacoby, 1908 Tricliona indica Jacoby, 1900 Tricliona laevicollis (Jacoby, 1887) Tricliona lakshmi Takizawa, 1984 Tricliona laotica Medvedev, 2000 Tricliona longicornis Jacoby, 1908 Tricliona marginata Jacoby, 1908 Tricliona melanura Lefèvre, 1890 Tricliona microdentata Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax, 1999 Tricliona minuta Medvedev, 2000 Tricliona nigra Jacoby, 1908 Tricliona nigrofasciata Jacoby, 1896 Tricliona nigromaculata Lefèvre, 1885 Tricliona oculata Medvedev & Takizawa, 2011 Tricliona paksensis Kimoto & Gressitt, 1982 Tricliona philippina Moseyko, 2011 Tricliona picea Jacoby, 1895 Tricliona puncticeps Duvivier, 1891 Tricliona quinquemaculata (Jacoby, 1887) Tricliona raapi (Jacoby, 1889) Tricliona sandakana Moseyko, 2011 Tricliona semivittata (Baly, 1864) Tricliona subdepressa Jacoby, 1908 Tricliona suratthanica Romantsov & Moseyko, 2016 Tricliona suturalis Kimoto & Gressitt, 1982 Tricliona tonkinensis (Lefèvre, 1893) Tricliona trangica Romantsov & Moseyko, 2016 Tricliona trimaculata Romantsov & Moseyko, 2016 Tricliona tristis Medvedev, 2001 Tricliona variabilis Jacoby, 1895

Tricliona

Synonyms: Tricliona apicata Jacoby, 1895: synonym of Tricliona puncticeps Duvivier, 1891 Tricliona glabricollis Jacoby, 1908 (replacement name for Tricliona laevicollis Jacoby, 1900): synonym of Colaspoides sublaevicollis Duvivier, 1892 Tricliona laevicollis Jacoby, 1900 (preoccupied name): synonym of Colaspoides sublaevicollis Duvivier, 1892 Tricliona oblonga (Motschulsky, 1866): moved to Basilepta Tricliona sulcatipennis Jacoby, 1896: moved to Rhyparida Tricliona sulcipennis Jacoby, 1904: moved to Rhyparida

References

Eumolpinae

Chrysomelidae genera

Beetles of Asia

Taxa named by Édouard Lefèvre