Chrysomela

Chrysomela
Chrysomela populi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Chrysomela
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Chrysomela populi
Linnaeus, 1758 [1]

Chrysomela is a genus of leaf beetles found almost throughout the world, but missing from Australia. It contains around 40 species, including 7 in eastern and northern Europe.[2] It also includes at least 17 species in North America, including the cottonwood leaf beetle Chrysomela scripta.[3]

Species

  • Chrysomela afghanica
  • Chrysomela alpina
  • Chrysomela alticola
  • Chrysomela blaisdelli
  • Chrysomela collaris
  • Chrysomela cuprea
  • Chrysomela cyaneoviridis
  • Chrysomela lapponica
  • Chrysomela populi
  • Chrysomela quadricollis
  • Chrysomela saliceti
  • Chrysomela salicivorax
  • Chrysomela selengensis
  • Chrysomela taimyrensis
  • Chrysomela tremula
  • Chrysomela turcestanica
  • Chrysomela vigintipunctata
  • Chrysomela wrangeliana

References

  1. ^ Edward U. Balsbaugh, Jr. & Kirby L. Hays (1972). Subfamily Chrysomelinae. "The leaf beetles of Alabama (Coleopterea: Chrysomelidae)". Bulletin of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (Auburn University) 441. http://www.aaes.auburn.edu/comm/pubs/bulletins/beetles/chrysomelinae.php. 
  2. ^ Andris Bukejs (2010). "On Latvian Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): 2. Genus Chrysomela Linnaeus, 1758" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Lituanica 20 (1): 12–21. doi:10.2478/v10043-010-0002-y. http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/pdf/ab_pdf_39_bukejs_chrysomela.pdf. 
  3. ^ Eric R. Eaton & Kenn Kaufman (2007). "Leaf beetles". Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 160–165. ISBN 9780618153107. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aWVi0IF_jcQC&pg=PA160. 

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