Chrysomela is a genus of leaf beetles found almost throughout the world, but not in Australia. It contains around 40 species, including 7 in eastern and northern Europe.[4] It also includes at least 17 species in North America, including the cottonwood leaf beetle Chrysomela scripta.[5]

Chrysomela
Chrysomela populi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Chrysomelinae
Tribe: Chrysomelini
Genus: Chrysomela
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Chrysomela populi
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Lina Latreille, 1829
  • Eleia Gistel, 1848
  • Gymnota Gistel, 1848
    (nec Gistel, 1834)
  • Ernobia Gistel, 1856
  • Melasoma Stephens, 1831
  • Microdera Stephens, 1839
    (nec Eschscholtz, 1831)
  • Macrolina Motschulsky, 1860
  • Strickerus Lucas, 1920
  • Pachylina Medvedev & Chernov, 1969
Chrysomela scripta

Taxonomy

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Chrysomela is traditionally broken up into three subgenera, Chrysomela, Macrolina (or Strickerus) and Pachylina.[6][7] In 1998, researchers Maurizio Biondi and Mauro Daccordi proposed a new classification of Chryomela without any subgenera.[8] This was followed by the sixth volume of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera.[2]

Species

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These 27 species belong to the genus Chrysomela:[2][9]

Data sources: i = ITIS,[6] c = Catalogue of Life,[10] g = GBIF,[11] b = Bugguide.net[7]

References

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  1. ^ Edward U. Balsbaugh Jr. & Kirby L. Hays (1972). "The leaf beetles of Alabama (Coleopterea: Chrysomelidae)". Bulletin of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. 441. Auburn University.
  2. ^ a b c Kippenberg, H. (2010). "Subfamily Chrysomelinae Latreille, 1802". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 390–443. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
  3. ^ Bezděk, J. (2020). "Review of the genus-level names proposed by Johannes Gistel in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera)". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 60 (1): 173–188. doi:10.37520/aemnp.2020.011.
  4. ^ Andris Bukejs (2010). "On Latvian Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): 2. Genus Chrysomela Linnaeus, 1758" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Lituanica. 20 (1): 12–21. doi:10.2478/v10043-010-0002-y.
  5. ^ Eric R. Eaton & Kenn Kaufman (2007). "Leaf beetles". Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 160–165. ISBN 978-0-618-15310-7.
  6. ^ a b "Chrysomela Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  7. ^ a b "Chrysomela Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  8. ^ Biondi, M.; Daccordi, M. (1998). "A proposed new supra-specific classification of Chrysomela Linné and other related genera and a description of new taxa". In Biondi, M.; Daccordi, M.; Furth, D.G. (eds.). Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Chrysomelidae. Proceedings of a symposium (30 August, 1996, Florence, Italy) XX International Congress of Entomology. Torino: Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali. pp. 49–71.
  9. ^ Medvedev, L. N.; Khruleva, O. A. (2011). "A contribution to the knowledge of the Arctic forms of the genus Chrysomela L. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Entomological Review. 91 (8): 988–1004. doi:10.1134/S0013873811080057. S2CID 37684387.
  10. ^ "Browse Chrysomela". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  11. ^ "Chrysomela". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
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