''Scelida'' is a genus of skeletonizing leaf 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 at least four described species in ''Scelida''. They are found in North America and the
Neotropics.
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Species
These four species belong to the genus ''Scelida'':
* '' Scelida flaviceps'' (Horn, 1893)
* '' Scelida metallica'' Jacoby, 1888
* '' Scelida mimula''
* '' Scelida nigricornis'' (Jacoby, 1888)
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Galerucinae
Chrysomelidae genera
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Taxa named by Félicien Chapuis
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