Phyllobrotica

Phyllobrotica
Phyllobrotica limbata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Luperini
Subtribe:	Luperina
Genus:	Phyllobrotica Chevrolat, 1836

Phyllobrotica is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles and flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 18 described species in Phyllobrotica.[1][2] [3] [4]

Species

• Phyllobrotica antennata Schaeffer, 1932
• Phyllobrotica blakeae Hatch, 1971
• Phyllobrotica circumdata (Say, 1824)
• Phyllobrotica costipennis Horn, 1893
• Phyllobrotica decorata (Say, 1824)
• Phyllobrotica leechi Blake, 1956
• Phyllobrotica lengi Blatchley, 1910
• Phyllobrotica limbata (Fabricius, 1801)
• Phyllobrotica luperina J. L. LeConte, 1865
• Phyllobrotica nigripes Horn, 1893
• Phyllobrotica nigritarsi Linell, 1898
• Phyllobrotica nigritarsis Linell, 1897
• Phyllobrotica physostegiae E. Riley, 1979
• Phyllobrotica sequoiensis Blake, 1956
• Phyllobrotica sororia Horn, 1896
• Phyllobrotica stenidea Schaeffer, 1932
• Phyllobrotica viridipennis (J. L. LeConte, 1859)
• Phyllobrotica vittata Horn, 1893

References

1. "Phyllobrotica Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
2. "Phyllobrotica Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
3. White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.
4. "North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". Texas Entomology. Mike Quinn. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

• Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Phyllobrotica