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 use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

within 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 ...

subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...

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 ...

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

genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...

with altogether about 400

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

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

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, but the rest is distributed over all other continents except

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Genera and species

Genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...

and some selected

include: * '' Chlamisus'' Rafinesque, 1815 ** '' Chlamisus amyemae'' Reid, 1991 ** '' Chlamisus arizonensis'' Linell, 1898 ** '' Chlamisus aterrimus'' Lea, 1904 ** '' Chlamisus flavidus'' Karren, 1972 ** ''

Chlamisus foveolatus ''Chlamisus foveolatus'' is a species of warty leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae 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, mak ...

'' Knoch, 1801 ** ''

Chlamisus huachucae ''Chlamisus'', sometimes known as the cloaked warty leaf beetles, is a genus of warty leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 90 described species in ''Chlamisus''. Species As of 2023, GBIF lists the following 93 species ...

'' 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'' * '' 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) * '' 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 cuprea'' (Klug, 1824) ** '' Poropleura lisai'' (Uliana & Daccordi, 2022) ** '' Poropleura monstrosa'' (Fabricius, 1798) * '' Pseudochlamys'' Lacordaire, 1848 ** '' Pseudochlamys megalostomoides'' Lacordaire, 1849 ** '' Pseudochlamys semirufescens'' 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)

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