Flag for Taxon: Podontia manilensis
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iestynj | Podontia manilensis |
unsure if a valid species name, may actually belong in Asiophrida |
Aug. 4, 2023 13:34:08 +0000 | xpda |
marked inactive |
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Another possibility is Bikasha manilensis (Medvedev, 1993), originally in Manobidia. I'd guess that Podontia manilensis was either moved to another genus, or determined to be a invalid or a synonym.
Apparently this taxon came from the uBio Project, which goes to a dead link now. The Wikipedia genus page has a question mark with manilensis and no authority on the current and original (2021) pages. There are no iNat observations. Since it's not likely to ever have an iNat observation, it's not listed in any catalogs, and there's no accessible data, I'll mark the species inactive in iNaturalist.
What's the source for "Podontia manilensis" on iNaturalist? So far I haven't been able to find anything with this species name in the actual scientific literature. My best guess so far is that it's an error and should actually be Asiophrida manilensis (Weise, 1910), based on Medvedev (2000)'s revision of Blepharidini (= Blepharida-group in Alticini currently?) from the Oriental/Indomalaysian realm, which transferred some Podontia species to a new genus Asiophrida. (A. manilensis was originally named "Ophrida manilensis", meanwhile)
Medvedev, L.N. 2000. A revision of the group Blepharidini (Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) from the Oriental region. Russian Entomological Journal 8(3): 175–184. (unfortunately not freely available online currently, but you can search for text in this Google Books page for the volume)
I'm also partly asking because an English Wikipedia user a few years ago copied iNaturalist's list of species but wasn't sure where "Podontia manilensis" came from either when I asked. It'd be nice to find out what's going on here.