Agetocera

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Agetocera
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Agetocera, China
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Luperini
Subtribe: Aulacophorina
Genus: Agetocera
Hope, 1840
Synonyms
  • AegelocerusHope, 1831
  • AgetoceraHope, 1840

Agetocera is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 25 described species in Agetocera. They are found in Indomalaya and the Palaearctic, especially in China. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Species

These 28 species belong to the genus Agetocera: [1] [2] [3] [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Agetocera". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  2. 1 2 Nie, R-E; Bezděk, J.; Yang, X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. Bibcode:2017ZooK..720...91N. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.720.13517 . PMC   5740445 . PMID   29290727.
  3. 1 2 Yang, Xing-Ke; Ge, Si-Qin; Li, Wen-Zhu (2012). "Revision of the genus Agetocera hope (Cole-Optera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)" . Oriental Insects. 35 (1): 105–154. doi:10.1080/00305316.2001.10417293. S2CID   83793097.
  4. 1 2 Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezdĕk, Jan; Staines, Charles (2010). "A review of the genus Agetocera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in Taiwan—are there only two species?" . Zootaxa. 5072 (3): 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2441.1.1.