''Cheilotoma'' is a genus of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...
s in the 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 cases are made from the feces of larvae, passed from one instar to the next, and ultimat ...
of the
leaf beetle
The beetle family Chrysomelidae, commonly known as leaf beetles, includes over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making it one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle families. Numerous s ...
s family.
List of species
Eight species are included in the genus, divided into two subgenera:
* Subgenus ''Cheilotoma''
Chevrolat
Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat (29 March 1799, Paris – 16 December 1884, Paris) was a French entomologist. He specialized mainly on the beetles and was a founder of the Societe entomologique de France in 1832.
Chevrolat worked as a toll adm ...
in Dejean, 1836
** ''
Cheilotoma beldei''
Kasap, 1984
** ''
Cheilotoma cankiriensis''
Özdikmen & Bal, 2016
** ''
Cheilotoma erythrostoma''
Faldermann, 1837
** ''
Cheilotoma fulvicollis''
Sahlberg, 1913
** ''
Cheilotoma musciformis''
(Goeze, 1777)
** ''
Cheilotoma rotroui''
Kocher, 1961
** ''
Cheilotoma voriseki''
Medvedev et Kantner, 2003
* Subgenus ''Exaesiognatha''
Jacobson, 1923
** ''
Cheilotoma ivanovi''
Jacobson, 1923
References
External links
Wydział Nauk Biologicznych
Clytrini
Taxa named by Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat
Chrysomelidae genera
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