Eupalea Mulsant, 1850 Eupalea Mulsant, 1850: 889; Crotch, 1874: 290; Gorham, 1895: 209; Korschefsky, 1931: 104; Blackwelder, 1945: 443; Gordon, 1987: 35, 36; Almeida & Gordon, 1990: 314. Type species: Eupalea formosa Mulsant, 1850; by subsequent designation of Crotch (1874). Distribution by States in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Ceará; Rio Grande do Norte; Bahia. Species from the Northeast Region of Brazil. Eupalea reinhardtii Crotch, 1874. Comments. This genus is distributed from Mexico to the Southern Region of Brazil (Blackwelder 1945; Almeida & Gordon 1990). Five of the seventeen species of Eupalea occur in Brazil, with E. reinhardtii being the only species recorded for NE Brazil (Almeida & Gordon 1990; González 2015; Szawaryn & Czerwiński 2022).

Published as part of Duarte-De-Mélo, Jefferson, Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Lima, Iracilda Maria De Moura, 2025, A diversity panorama of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Northeastern Brazil, pp. 451-495 in Zootaxa 5728 (3) on page 462, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/17894971