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''Neolema'' is a genus 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 ...
. Eight described species currently are placed in ''Neolema''.


Species

*'' Neolema cordata'' R. White, 1993 *'' Neolema dorsalis'' ( Olivier, 1791) *'' Neolema ephippium'' ( Lacordaire, 1845) *'' Neolema gundlachiana'' (
Suffrian Christian Wilhelm Ludwig Eduard Suffrian (21 January 1805, Wünsdorf, Teltow-Fläming18 August 1876, Bad Rehburg) was a German entomologist who specialized in Coleoptera especially Chrysomelidae. He was a schoolteacher in Münster. Suffrian wrot ...
, 1874)
*'' Neolema jacobina'' (Linell, 1897) *'' Neolema ovalis'' R. White, 1993 *'' Neolema quadriguttata'' R. White, 1993 *'' Neolema sexpunctata'' ( Olivier, 1808) (six-spotted neolema)


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. * 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. * White, Richard E. (1968). ''A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico''. Smithsonian Institution Press. Criocerinae Chrysomelidae genera {{chrysomelidae-stub