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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Chrysomelinae » Chrysomelini » Doryphorina » Chrysolina

Genus Chrysolina

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
beetle - Chrysolina Small, dark and shiny - Chrysolina bankii Chrysolina Leaf beetle from Washington 10.07.16 - Chrysolina Another leaf beetle... - Chrysolina flavomarginata GreenBlack - Chrysolina Small gold beetle - Chrysolina Introduced leaf beetle in San Francisco Bay region - Chrysolina bankii
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)
Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
Subfamily Chrysomelinae
Tribe Chrysomelini
Subtribe Doryphorina
Genus Chrysolina
Explanation of Names
Chrysolina Motschulsky 1860
Numbers
less than 20 spp. (of 8 subgenera) in our area, of which 3 imported to control weeds, 2 adventive; huge group with ~450 spp. and hundreds of sspp. in 65 subgenera (23 of which monotypic) in the Old World(1)(2)
Range
Eurasia (~90% of total spp.), Africa, NA; our native spp. are mostly boreal/montane(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.A study on the genus Chrysolina Motsch. 1860, with a checklist of all the described subgenera, species, subspecies, and synonyms
Bieńkowski A.O. 2001. Genus 12: 105-235.
Contributed by tom murray on 19 June, 2005 - 8:35pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 12 April, 2016 - 11:32am

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