Chrysomelini is a tribe of leaf beetles 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, making it one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle families. Numerous s ...
. There are over 150 described genera in Chrysomelini, variously arranged into subtribes, though the exact number and constituency of these subtribes is a source of ongoing debate.
Selected genera
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Cadiz''
Andrews & Gilbert, 1992
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Calligrapha''
Chevrolat, 1836
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Chrysolina
''Chrysolina'' is a large genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Chrysomelinae. Most species are distributed in Europe, Asia and Africa with a small number of species inhabiting North America (including introduced European ones) and introduce ...
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Motschulsky, 1860
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Chrysomela''
Linnaeus, 1758
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Doryphora''
Illiger, 1807
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Entomoscelis''
Chevrolat, 1836
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Fasta
FASTA is a DNA and protein sequence alignment software package first described by David J. Lipman and William R. Pearson in 1985. Its legacy is the FASTA format which is now ubiquitous in bioinformatics.
History
The original FASTA program ...
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Petitpierre & Alonso-Zarazaga, 2019
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Gastrophysa
''Gastrophysa'' is a genus of beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, in which the females typically exhibit swollen, membranous abdomens, a condition known as physogastrism.
Species
These nine species belong to the genus ''Gastrophysa'':
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Chevrolat, 1836
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Gonioctena''
Chevrolat, 1836
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Labidomera''
Chevrolat, 1836
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Leptinotarsa
''Leptinotarsa'' is a genus of leaf beetles.
Several species in the genus produce leptinotarsin, a toxin similar to the diamphotoxin produced by species of the African leaf beetle genus ''Diamphidia''. Some ''Leptinotarsa'' species are parasit ...
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Chevrolat, 1836
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Microtheca''
Stål, 1860
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Oreina''
Chevrolat, 1836
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Paropsisterna''
Motschulsky, 1860
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Phaedon
''Phaedon'' (), published in 1767, is a book by the Jewish Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, in which Mendelssohn offers a defense of immortality.
Summary
''Phaedon'' is a defense of the simplicity and immortality of the soul.
The f ...
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Latreille, 1829
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Phratora''
Chevrolat, 1836
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Plagiodera''
Chevrolat, 1836
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Prasocuris''
Latreille, 1802
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Proseicela''
Chevrolat, 1836
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Trachymela''
Weise, 1908
References
Further reading
* Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
* Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.
* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Chrysomelini
Chrysomelinae
Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille
Beetle tribes
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