''Lilioceris'' is a genus of beetles in the leaf beetle 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 ...

. The genus was first scientifically described in 1912 by

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. ''Lilioceris'' belongs to the subfamily Criocerinae and tribe Criocerini (Latreille, 1807). The family of beetles are of importance in

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because of their impact on the cultivation of

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. ''

Lilioceris cheni ''Lilioceris cheni'', the air potato leaf beetle, is a species of beetle in the genus '' Lilioceris'' that feeds on air potato plants. Air potatoes and the beetles are both native to Asia but have been introduced elsewhere. The air potato plant ...

'' was introduced into

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by biologists to try to control the spread of invasive air potato plants.

Description

Species of ''Lilioceris'' are between 4 and 10 mm long. The body has a long narrow shape, with a pronounced shoulder between the

elytra An elytron (; ; : elytra, ) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometime ...

and

pronotum The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on e ...

. Both the

larva A larva (; : larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage. Animals with indirect development such as insects, some arachnids, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase ...

e and the adult (

imago In biology, the imago (Latin for "image") is the last stage an insect attains during its metamorphosis, its process of growth and development; it is also called the ''imaginal'' stage ("imaginal" being "imago" in adjective form), the stage in wh ...

) beetles feed on plants.

Lifecycle

''Lilioceris'' species are

holometabolous Holometabolism, also called complete metamorphosis, is a form of insect development which includes four life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and imago (or adult). Holometabolism is a synapomorphic trait of all insects in the clade Holometabola. Immatur ...

, having a complete

metamorphosis Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and different ...

. The larvae proceed to a

pupa A pupa (; : pupae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through four distinct stages in their life cycle, the stages th ...

tion stage to develop into adults.

Diversity

Well over 100 species are described, with 80 in Asia alone.Tishechkin, A. K., et al. (2011)
Review of the continental Oriental species of ''Lilioceris'' Reitter (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Criocerinae) closely related to ''Lilioceris impressa'' (F.).
''ZooKeys'' (103), 63. Selected species:Warchalowski, A. (2011)
An attempt on a review of ''Lilioceris'' Reitter, 1913 - species from continental part of south-eastern Asia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Criocerinae).
''Genus'' 22(1) 95-122. *'' Lilioceris apicalis'' Yu in Yu, 1992 *'' Lilioceris brancuccii'' Medvedev, 1992 *''

'' Gressit & Kimoto, 1961 *'' Lilioceris chodjaii'' Berti & Rapilly, 1976 *'' Lilioceris dentifemoralis'' Long, 1988 *'' Lilioceris egena'' Weise, 1922 *'' Lilioceris faldermanni'' ( Guérin-Méneville, 1829) *'' Lilioceris hitam'' Mohamedsaid, 1990 *'' Lilioceris jianfenglingensis'' Long, 1988 *'' Lilioceris kimotoi'' Mohamedsaid, 1991 *'' Lilioceris laetus'' Medvedev, 1992 *'' Lilioceris laysi'' Mohamedsaid, 2000 *'' Lilioceris lianzhouensis'' Long, 2000 *''

Lilioceris lilii ''Lilioceris'' is a genus of beetles in the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae. The genus was first scientifically described in 1912 by Edmund Reitter. ''Lilioceris'' belongs to the subfamily Criocerinae and tribe Criocerini (Latreille, 1807). Th ...

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Lilioceris merdigera ''Lilioceris merdigera'', the Onion beetle, is a species of beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Criocerinae. Distribution This species can be found in most Europe (especially in Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembo ...

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Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

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) *'' Lilioceris nepalensis'' Takizawa, 1989 *'' Lilioceris parallela'' Mohamedsaid, 1999 *'' Lilioceris rondoni'' Kimoto & Gressitt, 1979 *'' Lilioceris schneideri'' Weise, 1900 *'' Lilioceris thailandicus'' Medvedev, 2005 *'' Lilioceris tibialis'' (Villa, 1838) *'' Lilioceris vietnamica'' Medvedev, 1985 *'' Lilioceris xinglongensis'' Long, 1988 *'' Lilioceris yuae'' Long, 2000

References

Bibliography

External links

BioLib.cz ''Lilioceris''

Fauna Europaea ''Lilioceris''
on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures website. {{Taxonbar, from=Q1756167 Chrysomelidae genera Criocerinae Taxa named by Edmund Reitter