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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Case-bearing Leaf Beetles (Cryptocephalinae) » Short-horned Leaf Beetles (Clytrini)

Tribe Clytrini - Short-horned Leaf Beetles

Urodera crucifera texana Schaeffer - Urodera crucifera

Small Fuzzy Beetle - Coleothorpa vittigera

Cryptocephalinae on calycadenia hooveri - Coleothorpa axillaris

Babia quadriguttata pulla? - Babia quadriguttata

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Cryptocephalinae (Case-bearing Leaf Beetles)

Tribe Clytrini (Short-horned Leaf Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Formerly treated as a separate subfamily; revised in (1)(2)

Explanation of Names

Clytrini Lacordaire 1848

Numbers

~35 spp. in 9 genera in our area(3), ~600 spp. worldwide(4)

Identification

Serrate antennae are diagnostic among Chrysomelidae

head/mouthparts strongly sexually dimorphic in many spp.(4)

Habitat

Most species are suspected of obligate or facultative myrmecophily as larvae (Moldenke 1970)

Print References

Moldenke A.R. (1971) Host-plant relationships of phytophagous Mexican Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera). Pan-Pac. Entomol. 47: 106‒116.

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the Clytrinae of North America north of the Isthmus of Panama (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Moldenke A.R. 1970. Stanford University Press, Stanford. 310 pp.

2.	A generic reclassification of the New World Clytrinae A. R. Moldenke. 1981. Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey, Vol. 29-30: 75-116.

3.	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.

4.	Chrysomelid males with enlarged mandibles: three new species and a review of occurrence in the family (Coleoptera:Chrysomelidae) Reid C.A.M., Beatson M. 2013. Zootaxa 3619: 79–100.

Contributed by tom murray on 22 December, 2005 - 7:58pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, john and jane balaban, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 22 March, 2025 - 2:37pm

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