Chlamisini
| Chlamisini | |
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| Adult Neochlamisus bebbianae on the host plant Salix bebbiana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Cryptocephalinae |
| Tribe: | Chlamisini Gressitt, 1946 |
| Genera | |
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11, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chlamisinae | |
The Chlamisini form a tribe within the leaf beetle subfamily Cryptocephalinae, though historically they were often treated as a distinct subfamily, Chlamisinae. 11 genera with altogether about 400 species are currently placed here; some four-fifths of the species are found in the Neotropics, but the rest is distributed over all other continents except Antarctica.[1]
Genera and some selected species include:
- Chlamisus Rafinesque, 1815
- Chlamisus amyemae Reid, 1991
- Chlamisus arizonensis Linell, 1898
- Chlamisus aterrimus Lea, 1904
- Chlamisus flavidus Karren, 1972
- Chlamisus foveolatus Knoch, 1801
- Chlamisus huachucae Schaeffer, 1906
- Chlamisus maculipes Chevrolat, 1835
- Chlamisus mimosae Karren, 1989
- Chlamisus minax Lacordaire
- Chlamisus nigromaculatus Karren, 1972
- Chlamisus quadrilobatus Schaeffer, 1926
- Chlamisus texanus Schaeffer, 1906
- Diplacaspis Jacobson, 1924
- Diplacaspis prosternalis Schaeffer, 1906
- Exema
- Fulcidax Voet, 1806
- Fulcidax bacca Kirby, 1818
- Fulcidax coelestina Lacordaire
- Fulcidax monstrosa Fabricius, 1798
- Melitochlamys Monrós, 1948
- Neochlamisus – warty leaf beetles (c.17 species)
- Pseudochlamys Lacordaire, 1848
- Pseudochlamys megalostomoides Lacordaire, 1849
- Pseudochlamys semirufescens Karren, 1972
Footnotes
- ↑ Chaboo et al. (2008)
References
- Chaboo, Caroline S.; Brown, Christopher G. & Funk, Daniel J. (2008): Faecal case architecture in the gibbosus species group of Neochlamisus Karren, 1972 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Chlamisini). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 152(2): 315–351. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00343.x (HTML abstract)
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