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''Derocrepis'' is a genus of flea 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 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...
. There are seven described species in ''Derocrepis''.


Selected species

* '' Derocrepis aesculi'' (Dury, 1906) * '' Derocrepis carinata'' (Linell, 1897) * '' Derocrepis erythropus'' (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847) (red-legged flea beetle) * '' Derocrepis oregoni'' Hatch, 1971


References

* Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". ''Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1'', 290.


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, ''Derocrepis''
Alticini Chrysomelidae genera Taxa named by Julius Weise {{Galerucinae-stub