Bathseba (formerly Tricliona) is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains at least 43 species, and is distributed from India and Southern China to the Philippines.
In 2023, Tricliona was proposed as a synonym of Bathseba <small>Motschulsky, 1866</small>, while Tricliona foveipennis <small>Bryant, 1950</small> (the only species described from New Guinea), was transferred to the genus Gressittella.
Species
The following species are placed in the genus:
- Bathseba armata <small>(Jacoby, 1889)</small> â Sumatra
- Bathseba bakeri <small>(Moseyko, 2011)</small> â Palawan
- Bathseba bicolor <small>(Jacoby, 1895)</small> â south India
- Bathseba bifasciata <small>(Jacoby, 1895)</small> â India, Nepal, Bhutan
- Bathseba ceylonensis <small>(Jacoby, 1908)</small> â Sri Lanka
- Bathseba consobrina <small>(Chen, 1935)</small> â North Vietnam
- Bathseba costipennis <small>(Chen, 1935)</small> â North Vietnam
- Bathseba episternalis <small>(Weise, 1922)</small> â Palawan
- Bathseba fasciata <small>(Lefèvre, 1885)</small> â Sumatra
- Bathseba ferruginea <small>(Weise, 1922)</small> â Palawan
- Bathseba ferruginosa <small>Motschulsky, 1866</small> â Sri Lanka
- Bathseba fulvifrons <small>(Jacoby, 1899)</small> â Sumatra
- Bathseba kashmirica <small>Deviatkina & Moseyko, 2024</small> â Jammu and Kashmir
- Bathseba inconspicua <small>(Jacoby, 1908)</small> â south India
- Bathseba indica <small>(Jacoby, 1900)</small> â India (West Bengal)
- Bathseba laevicollis <small>(Jacoby, 1887)</small> â Sri Lanka
- Bathseba lakshmi <small>(Takizawa, 1984)</small> â south India
- Bathseba laotica <small>(Medvedev, 2000)</small> â Laos
- Bathseba longicornis <small>(Jacoby, 1908)</small> â Sri Lanka
- Bathseba marginata <small>(Jacoby, 1908)</small> â south India
- Bathseba melanura <small>(Lefèvre, 1890)</small> â Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand
- Bathseba microdentata <small>(Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax, 1999)</small> â Nepal
- Bathseba minuta <small>(Medvedev, 2000)</small> â Laos
- Bathseba nepalica <small>Deviatkina & Moseyko, 2024</small> â Nepal
- Bathseba nigra <small>(Jacoby, 1908)</small> â south India
- Bathseba nigrofasciata <small>(Jacoby, 1896)</small> â Sumatra
- Bathseba nigromaculata <small>(Lefèvre, 1885)</small> â Sumatra
- Bathseba oculata <small>(Medvedev & Takizawa, 2011)</small> â Bali
- Bathseba paksensis <small>(Kimoto & Gressitt, 1982)</small> â Laos, Vietnam
- Bathseba philippina <small>(Moseyko, 2011)</small> â Mindanao
- Bathseba picea <small>(Jacoby, 1895)</small> â south India
- Bathseba puncticeps <small>(Duvivier, 1891)</small> â India, Nepal
- Bathseba quinquemaculata <small>(Jacoby, 1887)</small> â Sri Lanka
- Bathseba raapi <small>(Jacoby, 1889)</small> â Nias
- Bathseba sandakana <small>(Moseyko, 2011)</small> â Borneo
- Bathseba semivittata <small>(Baly, 1864)</small> â south India
- Bathseba suratthanica <small>(Romantsov & Moseyko, 2016)</small> â Thailand
- Bathseba suturalis <small>(Kimoto & Gressitt, 1982)</small> â Thailand
- Bathseba syzygium <small>Kumari, Moseyko & Prathapan, 2023</small> â India (Kerala)
- Bathseba tonkinensis <small>(Lefèvre, 1893)</small> â North Vietnam
- Bathseba trangica <small>(Romantsov & Moseyko, 2016)</small> â Thailand
- Bathseba trimaculata <small>(Romantsov & Moseyko, 2016)</small> â Peninsular Malaysia
- Bathseba tristis <small>(Medvedev, 2001)</small> â Thailand
- Bathseba variabilis <small>(Jacoby, 1895)</small> â south India
- Bathseba variegata <small>(Jacoby, 1904)</small> â south India
Synonyms:
- Tricliona bengalensis <small>(Jacoby, 1908)</small>: synonym of Bathseba indica <small>(Jacoby, 1900)</small>
- Tricliona apicata <small>Jacoby, 1895</small>: synonym of Bathseba puncticeps <small>(Duvivier, 1891)</small>
- Tricliona foveipennis <small>Bryant, 1950</small>: moved to Gressittella
- Tricliona glabricollis <small>Jacoby, 1908</small> (replacement name for Tricliona laevicollis <small>Jacoby, 1900</small>): synonym of Colaspoides sublaevicollis <small>Duvivier, 1892</small>
- Tricliona laevicollis <small>Jacoby, 1900</small> (preoccupied name): synonym of Colaspoides sublaevicollis <small>Duvivier, 1892</small>
- Tricliona oblonga <small>(Motschulsky, 1866)</small>: moved to Basilepta
- Tricliona subdepressa <small>Jacoby, 1908</small>: synonym of Bathseba variegata <small>(Jacoby, 1904)</small>
- Tricliona sulcatipennis <small>Jacoby, 1896</small>: moved to Rhyparida
- Tricliona sulcipennis <small>Jacoby, 1904</small>: moved to Rhyparida
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