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