Agelastica is a genus of beetles in the family Chrysomelidae.
Species Agelastica alni (Linnaeus, 1758)Europe, Russia (Siberia), Kazakhstan Agelastica coerulea Baly, 1860Japan, China, Russia (Siberia) Agelastica cyanicollis (Jacoby, 1884)* Indonesia (Sumatra) Agelastica lineata Blackburn, 1888*Australia
Note: (*) The latter two species were not mentioned in the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, either by Beenen, 2010 (In: Löbl & Smetana, 2010 Eds.), nor update in Bezděk & Sekerka, 2024.Bezděk, J. & Sekerka, L. (eds.) 2024. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6/2/1. Updated and Revised Second Edition. Chrysomeloidea II (Orsodacnidae, Megalopodidae, Chrysomelidae) – Part 1. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. This may be as both extralimital origins. Both were mentioned as ’'Incertae sedis'’ in Vassiliades et al. 2025. Vassiliades, D., Geiser, M.F., Barclay, M.V.L., Farrell, W.B., Cristóvão, J, Matsumoto, K., Crowley, L.M., 2025. The genome sequence of the Alder leaf beetle, Agelastica alni (Linnaeus, 1758). Wellcome Open Research 10: 263.
Else Agelastica bimaculata (Bertoloni, 1868) is recombined as Hallirhotius bimaculata (Bertoloni, 1868) in Beenen, 2000.Beenen, R. 2020. Notes on African Galerucinae and descriptions of new species 2 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 116: 61–87. Further Agelastica orientalis (Baly, 1878) is a junior subjective synonym of Agelastica alni ssp. glabra (Fischer von Waldheim, 1842) in Bezděk, 2015: 33.Bezděk, J. 2015. A review of palaearctic Scelolyperus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), with description of S. perreus sp. nov. from Turkey. Annales Zoologici 65(1): 21–39.
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