Beltia
Beltia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from the Neotropical realm. It was first erected by Martin Jacoby in 1881 for a single species from Nicaragua. In 2018, it was redefined to include fourteen new species from Central America and northwestern South America, as well as four species transferred from Colaspoides.
Species
- Beltia angustomarginata – central Panama
- Beltia awapita Flowers, 2018 – northwestern Ecuador
- Beltia chiriquensis – central Costa Rica to eastern Panama
- Beltia confusa Flowers, 2018 – Amazonian Peru
- Beltia gorgona Flowers, 2018 – Pacific coast of Colombia
- Beltia herreri Flowers, 2018 – northwestern Costa Rica, northwestern Panama
- Beltia ledesmae Flowers, 2018 – Ecuador west of the Andes
- Beltia napoensis Flowers, 2018 – Ecuador, Peru, Colombia
- Beltia nicaraguensis Jacoby, 1881 – southern Nicaragua, northern Costa Rica
- Beltia osa Flowers, 2018 – Costa Rica–Panama border
- Beltia placidula – Amazonian region of northern Peru
- Beltia rugosa Flowers, 2018 – Pacific coast of Colombia
- Beltia sanchezae Flowers, 2018 – Costa Rica
- Beltia talaga Flowers, 2018 – eastern slope of the Ecuadorian Andes
- Beltia tilarana Flowers, 2018 – Costa Rica
- Beltia tisingalita Flowers, 2018 – Costa Rica–Panama border
- Beltia tsachila Flowers, 2018 – western slope of the Ecuadorian Andes
- Beltia vacilona Flowers, 2018 – Costa Rica
- Beltia weyrauchi – eastern Peruvian Andes