Stizomolpus


Stizomolpus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains only one species, Stizomolpus kebarus. It was described from a single female specimen collected from Kebar Valley, a locality in the Indonesian province of Southwest Papua on the island of New Guinea. It resembles the genus Rhyparida, but differs from it by having a broad head, lacking a "Y"-shaped suture on the frontoclypeus as well as lacking grooves above the eyes, having swollen and transversely grooved elytra with very unequal puncturation, and having a small tooth on the underside of each femur on the front and hind legs. The name of the genus refers to the strong punctures and "eumolpine beetle".