Brachypnoea is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is mostly found in the Neotropical realm, though there are also eight known species in the Nearctic realm.
The genus was originally named Noda, named by Chevrolat in Dejean's Catalogue in 1836. However, this was preoccupied by Noda Schellenberg, 1803, a genus in Diptera. Two replacement names were made for Noda: Brachypnoea, by Gistel in 1848, and Nodonota by Édouard Lefèvre in 1885. Since Brachypnoea was published first, it has priority over Nodonota.
Species These species belong to the genus Brachypnoea:
Brachypnoea acuminata (Lefèvre, 1885) – Colombia Brachypnoea acutangula (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico Brachypnoea angulicollis (Lefèvre, 1876) – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina Brachypnoea arbustorum Bechyné & Bechyné, 1961 – Brazil Brachypnoea argentinensis (Jacoby, 1904) – Argentina Brachypnoea atra (Harold, 1875) Brachypnoea atra adequata (Bechyné, 1955) – Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala Brachypnoea atra atra (Harold, 1875) – Venezuela, Colombia Brachypnoea atra dislocata (Bechyné, 1953) – Venezuela Brachypnoea atra mosqueya Bechyné, 1997 – Venezuela Brachypnoea aurulenta (Lefèvre, 1876) – Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela Brachypnoea balyi (Jacoby, 1878) – Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica Brachypnoea bebedera (Bechyné, 1955) – Costa Rica Brachypnoea bella (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico Brachypnoea bicallosa (Jacoby, 1881) – Guatemala Brachypnoea boggianii (Jacoby, 1899) Brachypnoea boggianii boggianii (Jacoby, 1899) – Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia Brachypnoea boggianii laplatensis (Bechyné, 1954) (note: pages 196–199, 202–203, 206–207 are missing in the PDF) – Argentina, Uruguay Brachypnoea bogotana (Harold, 1874) – Colombia Brachypnoea boliviana (Jacoby, 1899) – Bolivia Brachypnoea bowditchi (Bechyné, 1949) – Argentina, Bolivia Brachypnoea callosa (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea carpintera (Bechyné, 1955) – Costa Rica Brachypnoea chalcea (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea chontalensis (Jacoby, 1890) – Nicaragua Brachypnoea clypealis (Horn, 1892) – Canada, United States Brachypnoea colaspisformis (Bechyné, 1949) – Argentina Brachypnoea colonensis (Bechyné, 1955) – Panama Brachypnoea columbina (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea congregata (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico Brachypnoea consonaria (Bechyné, 1951) – Bolivia Brachypnoea convexa (Say, 1824) – United States Brachypnoea coroicensis (Bechyné, 1951) – Bolivia, Peru Brachypnoea costipennis (Lefèvre, 1875) – Brazil, Mexico (?) Brachypnoea cretifera (Lefèvre, 1875) – Mexico, Belize, Guatemala Brachypnoea cribellata (Jacoby, 1881) – Mexico Brachypnoea cyanella (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico Brachypnoea cyanescens (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea denticollis (Jacoby, 1899) – Paraguay, Argentina Brachypnoea dispersa (Jacoby, 1881) – Mexico Brachypnoea distincta (Jacoby, 1881) – Mexico Brachypnoea doryphthalma (Bechyné, 1954) Brachypnoea doryphthalma doryphthalma (Bechyné, 1954) – Bolivia Brachypnoea doryphthalma quimensis Bechyné, 1958 – Bolivia Brachypnoea edura (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea elongata (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico Brachypnoea eulina Bechyné & Bechyné, 1961 – Brazil Brachypnoea exilis (Erichson, 1848) Brachypnoea exilis debilis Bechyné, 1997 – Venezuela Brachypnoea exilis exilis (Erichson, 1848) – Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad Brachypnoea exilis grita (Bechyné, 1955) – Venezuela Brachypnoea exilis propinqua (Lefèvre, 1875) – Colombia Brachypnoea exilis tuberculata (Lefèvre, 1875) – Venezuela Brachypnoea fallaciosa (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea fastidita (Jacoby, 1899) – Peru Brachypnoea filicornis (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea floricola (Bechyné, 1949) – Brazil Brachypnoea freyi (Bechyné, 1951) – Bolivia Brachypnoea grenadensis (Jacoby, 1897) – Saint Vincent, Grenada Brachypnoea hondurensis (Jacoby, 1890) – Belize Brachypnoea humeralis (Latreille, 1833) – Venezuela Brachypnoea humilis (Erichson, 1848) – Guyana Brachypnoea igneicollis (Jacoby, 1881) – Mexico Brachypnoea imitans (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico Brachypnoea insignis (Lefèvre, 1885) – Colombia Brachypnoea interrupta (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea irazuensis (Jacoby, 1881) – Costa Rica Brachypnoea junonis (Bechyné, 1952) – Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia Brachypnoea laeta (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea landolti (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia, Venezuela Brachypnoea lateralis (Jacoby, 1881) Brachypnoea lateralis jaliscensis (Bechyné, 1953) – Mexico Brachypnoea lateralis lateralis (Jacoby, 1881) – Mexico, Guatemala Brachypnoea lecontei E. Riley, S. Clark & Seeno, 2003 – United States Brachypnoea lefevrei (Jacoby, 1878) Brachypnoea lefevrei boucardi (Jacoby, 1878) – Guatemala Brachypnoea lefevrei lefevrei (Jacoby, 1878) – Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica Brachypnoea longicornis (Bechyné, 1953) – Trinidad Brachypnoea lugens (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea luteipes (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea margaretae (Schultz, 1980) – Canada, United States Brachypnoea medellina (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea meligethoides (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea meridensis (Bechyné, 1953) – Venezuela Brachypnoea metallica (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico Brachypnoea micromela (Bechyné, 1953) – Venezuela Brachypnoea mimas (Bechyné, 1955) – Panama Brachypnoea miribella (Bechyné, 1951) – Bolivia Brachypnoea mixiollensis (Bechyné, 1954) – Peru Brachypnoea modesta (Lefèvre, 1878) Brachypnoea modesta animatoria (Bechyné, 1953) – Costa Rica, Guatemala Brachypnoea modesta modesta (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea modesta parvula (Jacoby, 1890) – Panama Brachypnoea moerens (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea moesta (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea nana (Klug, 1829) – Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay Brachypnoea nicandra (Bechyné, 1953) – Brazil Brachypnoea nigra (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea obliterata (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico Brachypnoea ocanana (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea opaca (Jacoby, 1881) – Mexico Brachypnoea opacicollis (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico Brachypnoea ovoidea (Bechyné, 1953) – Panama Brachypnoea palmarensis (Bechyné, 1951) – Bolivia Brachypnoea paraensis Bechyné & Bechyne, 1961 – Brazil Brachypnoea peregrina (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea phryna (Bechyné, 1953) – Argentina Brachypnoea piccolina Bechyné & Bechyné, 1964 – Brazil Brachypnoea placida (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico, Panama Brachypnoea plumbea (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico Brachypnoea puncticollis (Say, 1824) (rose leaf beetle) – Canada, United States Brachypnoea pustulata (Harold, 1874) Brachypnoea pustulata pustulata (Harold, 1874) – Colombia Brachypnoea pustulata varicolor (Bechyné, 1951) – Venezuela Brachypnoea rotundicollis (Schaeffer, 1906) – United States (Texas) Brachypnoea ruficornis (Lefèvre, 1885) – Brazil Brachypnoea rufipes (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea rufula (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea scheerpeltzi (Bechyné, 1955) – Costa Rica Brachypnoea scutellaris (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea secundaria (Bechyné, 1951) Brachypnoea secundaria secundaria (Bechyné, 1951) – Brazil Brachypnoea secundaria sculptithorax (Bechyné, 1953) – Argentina Brachypnoea selenaria (Bechyné, 1951) – Bolivia Brachypnoea semicostata (Lefèvre, 1875) – Colombia Brachypnoea seminigra (Lefèvre, 1891) – Peru Brachypnoea sermyla (Bechyné, 1955) – Costa Rica Brachypnoea sinuata (Jacoby, 1890) – Mexico Brachypnoea sophia Bechyné & Bechyné, 1964 – Brazil Brachypnoea spinulosa (Lefèvre, 1885) – Brazil Brachypnoea strangulata (Bechyné, 1951) – Brazil Brachypnoea subaenea (Jacoby, 1899) – Colombia Brachypnoea subcylindrica (Jacoby, 1881) – Mexico Brachypnoea sylvana (Bechyné, 1953) – Brazil Brachypnoea tarsata (Jacoby, 1881) – Mexico Brachypnoea texana (Schaeffer, 1919) – United States (Texas) Brachypnoea tricostulata (Lefèvre, 1875) – Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana Brachypnoea tristis (Olivier, 1808) – Canada, United States Brachypnoea unicostata (Jacoby, 1881) – Brazil Brachypnoea varicornis (Weise, 1921) – Brazil Brachypnoea venustula (Lefèvre, 1878) – Brazil Brachypnoea violaceipennis (Jacoby, 1878) – Guatemala, Mexico Brachypnoea virginia (Bechyné, 1955) – Mexico Brachypnoea virgulata (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea viridis (Jacoby, 1878) – Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica Brachypnoea vulnerata Bechyné & Bechyne, 1961 – Brazil Brachypnoea wanda (Bechyné, 1954) – Brazil Brachypnoea weyrauchi (Bechyné, 1955) – Peru Brachypnoea winkerli (Lefèvre, 1878) – Colombia Brachypnoea wygodzinskyi (Bechyné, 1949) – Argentina Brachypnoea zita (Bechyné, 1954) – Brazil
Species transferred to Dryadomolpus: Brachypnoea brevis (Lefèvre, 1889) (originally in Alethaxius) Brachypnoea ella (Bechyné, 1955) Brachypnoea simoni (Lefèvre, 1889) Brachypnoea singularis (Lefèvre, 1889) Brachypnoea trichophora (Bechyné, 1955)
Species transferred to other genera: Brachypnoea cupriceps (Lefèvre, 1877): transferred to Chrysodinopsis Brachypnoea minuta (Jacoby, 1881): transferred to Spintherophyta Brachypnoea theobromae (Bryant, 1924): transferred to Taimbezinhia
Synonyms: Brachypnoea chrysicollis (Weise, 1921): Synonym of Brachypnoea aurulenta (Lefèvre, 1876) Brachypnoea coeruleata (Jacoby, 1899): Synonym of Brachypnoea venustula (Lefèvre, 1878) Brachypnoea granosa (Lefèvre, 1885): Synonym of Brachypnoea nana (Klug, 1829) Brachypnoea purpureosericea (Bechyné, 1951): Synonym of Brachypnoea aurulenta (Lefèvre, 1876) Brachypnoea venezuelensis (Jacoby, 1899): Synonym of Brachypnoea humeralis (Latreille, 1833)
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