Taumacera is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae. The genus was described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1814. It contains about 70 species distributed in the Oriental realm. About 20 African species are also classified in Taumacera, but they may actually belong in a different genus.
Species
Species included in the genus (not including those from Africa), as of 2019:
- Taumacera antennata species-group:
- Taumacera antennata <small>(Mohamedsaid, 1997)</small>
- Taumacera musaamani <small>(Mohamedsaid, 2010)</small>
- Taumacera cervicornis species-group:
- Taumacera cervicornis <small>(Baly, 1861)</small>
- Taumacera lewisi <small>(Jacoby, 1887)</small>
- Taumacera mirabilis <small>(Jacoby, 1887)</small>
- Taumacera unicolor <small>(Jacoby, 1887)</small>
- Taumacera deusta species-group:
- Taumacera centromaculata <small>Medvedev, 2008</small>
- Taumacera constricta <small>Mohamedsaid, 2002</small>
- Taumacera costatipennis <small>(Jacoby, 1896)</small>
- Taumacera dekatevi <small>Reid, 2001</small>
- Taumacera deusta <small>Thunberg, 1814</small>
- Taumacera duri <small>Mohamedsaid, 2001</small>
- Taumacera evi <small>Reid, 1999</small>
- Taumacera fulvicollis <small>(Jacoby, 1881)</small>
- Taumacera fulvovirens <small>(Laboissière, 1929)</small>
- Taumacera khalednordini <small>Mohamedsaid, 2010</small>
- Taumacera laevipennis <small>(Jacoby, 1886)</small>
- Taumacera maculata <small>(Baly, 1886)</small>
- Taumacera midtibialis <small>Mohamedsaid, 1998</small>
- Taumacera mohamedsaidi <small>Reid, 1999</small>
- Taumacera seminigra <small>Reid, 1999</small>
- Taumacera subapicalis <small>Mohamedsaid, 1993</small>
- Taumacera sucki <small>(Weise, 1922)</small>
- Taumacera tibialis <small>Mohamedsaid, 1994</small>
- Taumacera uniformis <small>(Jacoby, 1891)</small>
- Taumacera warisan <small>Mohamedsaid, 1998</small>
- Taumacera insignis species-group:
- Taumacera insignis <small>(Baly, 1864)</small>
- Taumacera yamamotoi <small>(Mohamedsaid, 1998)</small>
- Taumacera nasuta species-group:
- Taumacera clypeata <small>(Baly, 1888)</small>
- Taumacera facialis <small>(Baly, 1886)</small>
- Taumacera frontalis <small>Mohamedsaid, 2001</small>
- Taumacera fulva <small>(Kimoto, 1989)</small>
- Taumacera indicola <small>BezdÃÂk, 2019</small>
- Taumacera kimotoi <small>BezdÃÂk, 2019</small>
- Taumacera martensi <small>(Medvedev, 1990)</small>
- Taumacera medvedevi <small>BezdÃÂk, 2019</small>
- Taumacera nasuta <small>(Baly, 1879)</small>
- Taumacera paradoxa <small>(Laboissière, 1936)</small>
- Taumacera samoderzhenkovi <small>(Medvedev, 1992)</small>
- Taumacera nigricornis species-group:
- Taumacera nigricornis <small>(Baly, 1864)</small>
- Taumacera rufomarginata <small>(Jacoby, 1895)</small>
- Taumacera ventralis <small>(Baly, 1864)</small>
- Taumacera viridis species-group:
- Taumacera aureipennis <small>(Laboissière, 1933)</small>
- Taumacera bella <small>(Weise, 1922)</small>
- Taumacera indica <small>(Jacoby, 1889)</small>
- Taumacera insularis <small>(Gressitt & Kimoto, 1965)</small>
- Taumacera magenta <small>(Gressitt & Kimoto, 1965)</small>
- Taumacera occipitalis <small>(Laboissière, 1933)</small>
- Taumacera sumatrensis <small>(Jacoby, 1884)</small>
- Taumacera variceps <small>(Laboissière, 1933)</small>
- Taumacera viridis <small>(Hope, 1831)</small>
- Unassigned species:
- Taumacera antennalis <small>Medvedev & Romantsov, 2013</small>
- Taumacera apicalis <small>(Baly 1864)</small>
- Taumacera bifasciata <small>(Jacoby, 1899)</small>
- Taumacera coxalis <small>(Jacoby, 1899)</small>
- Taumacera indochinensis <small>(Medvedev, 2004)</small>
- Taumacera jacobyi <small>(Weise, 1922)</small>
- Taumacera javanensis <small>(Jacoby, 1895)</small>
- Taumacera kinabaluensis <small>(Mohamedsaid, 1995)</small>
- Taumacera monstrosa <small>(Jacoby, 1899)</small>
- Taumacera multicostata <small>(Jacoby, 1896)</small>
- Taumacera nagaii <small>(Mohamedsaid, 1998)</small>
- Taumacera nigripennis <small>(Jacoby, 1884)</small>
- Taumacera philippina <small>(Weise, 1913)</small>
- Taumacera rubida <small>(Allard, 1889)</small>
- Taumacera smaragdina <small>(Duvivier, 1884)</small>
- Taumacera submetallica <small>(Jacoby, 1896)</small>
- Taumacera sumatrana <small>(Jacoby, 1899)</small>
- Taumacera suturalis <small>(Duvivier, 1885)</small>
- Taumacera variabilis <small>(Jacoby, 1891)</small>
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