The Fulcidacini, sometimes known as the warty leaf beetles, are a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...

within the

leaf beetle The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...

subfamily

Cryptocephalinae The Cryptocephalinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), and belong to the group of case-bearing leaf beetles called the Camptosomata. The tribes Fulcidacini and Clytrini were formerly considered subfamilies of their own, and ...

, though historically they were often treated as a distinct subfamily, Chlamisinae. 11

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with altogether about 400

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...

are currently placed here; some four-fifths of the species are found in the

Neotropics The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bi ...

, but the rest is distributed over all other continents except

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Genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial ...

and some selected

include: * ''

Chlamisus ''Chlamisus'' is a genus of cloaked warty leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 110 described species in ''Chlamisus''. See also * List of Chlamisus species A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may als ...

'' Rafinesque, 1815 ** ''

Chlamisus amyemae ''Chlamisus'' is a genus of cloaked warty leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 110 described species in ''Chlamisus''. See also * List of Chlamisus species A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may als ...

'' Reid, 1991 ** '' Chlamisus arizonensis'' Linell, 1898 ** '' Chlamisus aterrimus'' Lea, 1904 ** ''

Chlamisus flavidus ''Chlamisus'' is a genus of cloaked warty leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 110 described species in ''Chlamisus''. See also * List of Chlamisus species A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may als ...

'' 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 ''Exema'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the tribe Fulcidacini. They occur worldwide, with 9 species In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of bi ...

'' * '' Poropleura'' Lacordaire, 1848 (=''Fulcidax'' Voet, 1806, an unavailable nameKrell, F-T. (2012) On nomenclature and synonymy of ''Trichius rosaceus'', ''T. gallicus'', and ''T. zonatus'' (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini). ''Zootaxa'' 3278: 61–68.) ** '' Poropleura bacca'' (Kirby, 1818) ** '' Poropleura coelestina'' (Lacordaire, 1848) ** '' Poropleura monstrosa'' (Fabricius, 1798) * '' Melitochlamys'' Monrós, 1948 * ''

Neochlamisus ''Neochlamisus'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the tribe Fulcidacini (the warty leaf beetles). They are members of the case-bearing leaf beetle group, the Camptosomata. Measuring 3–4 millimeters in length as adults, they are cryptic, supe ...

'' (c.17 species) * ''

Pseudochlamys ''Pseudochlamys'' is a genus of warty leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 ...

'' Lacordaire, 1848 ** ''

Pseudochlamys megalostomoides ''Pseudochlamys'' is a genus of warty leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 ...

'' Lacordaire, 1849 ** ''

Pseudochlamys semirufescens ''Pseudochlamys'' is a genus of warty leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 ...

'' Karren, 1972

Footnotes

References

* (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. (HTML abstract)

External links

* Cryptocephalinae {{Cryptocephalinae-stub