Capula (beetle)

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Capula
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Hylaspini
Genus: Capula
Jacobson, 1925 [1]
Type species
Capula metallica
Jacobson, 1925

Capula is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. It contains three species distributed in western China. [2] It is a member of the section "Capulites" in the tribe Hylaspini of the subfamily Galerucinae, alongside Furusawaia (including Yunnaniata), Nepalogaleruca and Himaplosonyx . All species in Capula are wingless, a character shared by the other genera in the section Capulites. [3] [4]

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Species

The genus contains three species: [2] [3]

References

  1. Jacobson, G.G (1925). "De Chrysomelidis palaearcticis. Descriptionum et annotationum series III". Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie. 19: 143–148.
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  3. 1 2 Bezděk, J.; Beenen, R. (2009). "Additions to the description of Yunnaniata konstantinovi Lopatin, 2009, and its classification in the section Capulites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Hylaspini)". Zootaxa . 2303: 45–52. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2303.1.2.
  4. Lee, C.-F.; Bezděk, J. (2021). "Revision of the genus Furusawaia Chûjô, 1962 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae)". ZooKeys (1057): 117–148. Bibcode:2021ZooK.1057..117L. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1057.71451 . PMC   8417024 . PMID   34552370.