Colaspidea is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from North America (California and the southwestern United States) and the Mediterranean. It has recently been suggested that the Mediterranean species of Colaspidea are a sister genus to Chalcosicya, and that Colaspina forms a sister genus to the former two combined. It has also been suggested that the North American species of Colaspidea may represent a separate genus.

The North American species of Colaspidea have wings, while the Mediterranean species are wingless.

Species There are 19 described species in the genus Colaspidea:

Mediterranean species: Colaspidea algarvensis Zoia, 2014 – Portugal, Spain Colaspidea confinis Zoia, 2014 – Algeria Colaspidea dogueti Zoia, 2014 – Algeria Colaspidea globosa (Küster, 1848) g – Portugal, Spain, Southern France Colaspidea graeca Zoia, 2014 – Greece Colaspidea grossa Fairmaire, 1866 g – Morocco Colaspidea incerta Zoia, 2014 – Algeria Colaspidea inflata Lefèvre, 1876 – Algeria Colaspidea juengeri Doguet, 1988 (formerly a subspecies of C. metallica) – Corfu, Sicily Colaspidea maghrebina Zoia, 2014 – Algeria Colaspidea maura Zoia, 2014 – Morocco, Algeria Colaspidea metallica (Rossi, 1790) g – Central Italy Colaspidea oblonga (Blanchard, 1845) g (synonyms: C. nitida H. Lucas, 1846; C. oblonga (Fairmaire, 1862); C. oblonga albanica Schatzmayr, 1923) – Corsica, Central and Southern Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, Croatia, Corfu, Greece, Crete, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia Colaspidea ovulum Fairmaire, 1866 – Algeria Colaspidea pallidipes Zoia, 2014 – Morocco, Spain Colaspidea proxima (Fairmaire, 1862) g – Spain, Southern France, Northern and Central Italy, Croatia, Algeria, Tunisia

North American species: Colaspidea pallipes Fall, 1933 i c g – Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah Colaspidea pomonae Fall, 1933 i c g – California Colaspidea smaragdula (LeConte, 1857) i c g b – Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = BugGuide

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