''Syphrea'' 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 about 100 described species, found in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
and the
Neotropics.
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Selected species
* '' Syphrea burgessi'' (Crotch, 1873)
* '' Syphrea flavicollis'' (Jacoby, 1884)
* '' Syphrea nana'' (Crotch, 1873)
* '' Syphrea nitidiventris'' (Fall, 1910)
* '' Syphrea speciosa'' (Olivier, 1818)
References
Further reading
*
Alticini
Chrysomelidae genera
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Taxa named by Joseph Sugar Baly
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