Cacoscelis

Cacoscelis
Cacoscelis nigripennis, Argentina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Alticini
Genus:	Cacoscelis Chevrolat, 1836

Cacoscelis is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, found in southern North America, Central America, and South America. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These 12 species belong to the genus Cacoscelis:

• Cacoscelis abdominalis Jacoby, 1904
• Cacoscelis argentinensis (Bechyné, 1951)
• Cacoscelis bicolorata Clark, 1865
• Cacoscelis coerulea Csiki, 1939
• Cacoscelis famelica (Fabricius, 1787)
• Cacoscelis flava Clark, 1865
• Cacoscelis lucens Erichson, 1847
• Cacoscelis marginata (Fabricius, 1775)
• Cacoscelis melanoptera (Germar, 1821)
• Cacoscelis nigripennis Clark, 1865
• Cacoscelis sallei Jacoby, 1884
• Cacoscelis varians Jacoby, 1891

References

1. "Cacoscelis". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
2. Nadein, K. S. (2013). "Catalogue of Alticini genera of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
3. 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.

External links

• Media related to Cacoscelis at Wikimedia Commons