Asphaera

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Asphaera
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Asphaera lustrans
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Asphaera
Duponchel & Chevrolat, 1842 [1]
Type species
Asphaera subfasciata
Clark, 1865 [2]
Synonyms [2]
  • PtenaChevrolat, 1836
  • AsphaeraChevrolat, 1836
    ( nomen nudum )

Asphaera is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, containing some 130 species, found in North America, Central America, and the Neotropics. [3]

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Selected species

References

  1. ↑ Duponchel, P.A.J; Chevrolat, L.A.A. (1842). "Asphaera". In d'Orbigny, C. (ed.). Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 2. Paris: MM. Renard, Martinet et Cie. p. 227.
  2. 1 2 Konstantinov, A.S.; Van Roie, M.; Furth, D.; Clark, S.M.; Riley, E.G. (2022). "Flea beetles of the West Indies: Subtribe Oedionychina Chapuis 1875, key to genera, new combinations, synonymy, checklist, and description of new genera and species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)". Journal of Insect Biodiversity. 33 (1): 1–56. doi:10.12976/jib/2022.33.1.1. S2CID   251366880.
  3. ↑ Nadein, K. S. (2013). "Catalogue of Alticini genera of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Asphaera Chevrolat, 1843". Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. ↑ "Paralleloptera Bezzi, 1913".


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