A new synonym of Bathseba Motschulsky, 1866 (Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae Typophorini) with a new species and redescription of B. bifasciata (Jacoby, 1895) n. comb. and other taxonomic and biological notes Author Kumari, Amritha Entomology, Vellayani P. O., Trivandrum- 695522, Kerala, India. Author Moseyko, A. G. 0000-0002-9023-709X Laboratory of Insect Systematics, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia. chrysolesha @ mail. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9023 - 709 X chrysolesha@mail.ru Author Prathapan, K. D. Entomology, Vellayani P. O., Trivandrum- 695522, Kerala, India. text Zootaxa 2023 2023-05-19 5293 1 122 144 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5293.1.5 journal article 53353 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.1.5 0e310225-a2b7-4844-b4bd-cf752dd45b98 1175-5326 7959849 69B83A2F-1565-4A87-B7A8-8B149957E893

TABLE 1. Host plants of Bathseba species.

Species	Host family and species	Reference
Bathseba bifasciata (Jacoby)	Anacardiaceae: Anacardium occidentale	This paper
L., Mangifera indica L.
B. picea (Jacoby)	Combretaceae: Terminalia arjuna (Roxb.)	Dhar et al. (1989); Singh (1989);
	Wight & Arn.,	Singh & Bhengara (1990); Mishra
	T. elliptica Willd.	et al. (1994); Sharma et al. (2005);
		Sharma et al. (2006); Siddaiah &
		Kujur (2016)
B. pilicornis (nomen inquirendum)	Combretaceae: Terminalia arjuna, T. el-	Dhar et al. (1989); Singh &
	liptica	Thangavelu (1994); Singh et al.
		(1994)
B. pulvis (nomen inquirendum)	Combretaceae: Terminalia arjuna, T. el-	Singh & Bhengara (1990)
	liptica
B. syzygium, new species	Myrtaceae: Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels	This paper
B. trimaculata (Romantsov & Mo-	Combretaceae: Lumnitzera Willd. sp.	Romantsov & Moseyko (2016)
seyko)
B. variabilis (Jacoby)	Combretaceae: Terminalia arjuna, T. el-	Dhar et al. (1989); Singh et al.
	liptica	(1994); Sharma et al. (2006); Singh &
		Thangavelu (1994)
Bathseba (as Tricliona)? nigra	Lythraceae: Punica granatum L.	Jayanthi & Verghese (2014)
(Jacoby) (misidentification of
Cleoporus lefevrei Duvivier, 1892)
Bathseba (as Tricliona) sp. nr. semi-	Mangrove (species not specified)	Raji & Remadevi (2005); Remadevi
vittata (Baly)		et al. (2008)
Bathseba sp. (as Tricliona sp.)	Combretaceae: Lumnitzera racemosa	Murphy (1990)
Willd.
Bathseba sp. 1 (as Tricliona sp. 1)	Mangrove (species not specified)	Raji & Remadevi (2005); Remadevi
		et al. (2008)
Bathseba sp. 2 (as Tricliona sp. 2)	Mangrove (species not specified)	Raji & Remadevi, 2005; Remadevi et
		al. 2008
Bathseba sp. (as Tricliona sp.)	Avicenniaceae: Avicennia L. sp.	Veenakumari et al. (1997); Remadevi
	Meliaceae: Xylocarpus J.Koenig sp.	et al. (2008)
Bathseba sp. 1 (as Tricliona sp. 1)	Combretaceae: Lumnitzera Willd. sp.	Veenakumari et al. (1997); Remadevi
	Lythraceae: Sonneratia L.f. sp.	et al. (2008)
Meliaceae: Xylocarpus J.Koenig sp.
Rhizophoraceae: Ceriops Arn. sp.
Rubiaceae: Scyphiphora C.F.Gaertn. sp.
Bathseba sp. 2 (as Tricliona sp 2)	Combretaceae: Bruguiera Lam. sp.	Veenakumari et al. (1997); Remadevi
	Rhizophoraceae: Rhizophora L. sp.	et al. (2008)
Bathseba sp. 3 (as Tricliona sp. 3)	Combretaceae: Bruguiera Lam. sp.	Veenakumari et al. (1997); Remadevi
	Rhizophoraceae: Rhizophora L. sp.	et al. (2008)
Bathseba sp. (as Tricliona sp.)	Combretaceae: Terminalia paniculata	Prathapan et al. (2013)
Roth