| Cleorina | |
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| Cleorina janthina | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Typophorini |
| Genus: | Cleorina Lefèvre, 1885 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Cleorina aulica (= Nodostoma aeneomicans Baly, 1867) | |
| Synonyms | |
Basilepta Weise, 1923 | |
Cleorina is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in South, East and Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Australia.
Cleorina modiglianii , a species found in Sumatra, was considered as a potential biological control agent for the giant bramble ( Rubus alceifolius ), an invasive plant species in La Réunion, but was rejected after testing its host specificity. [3]
Species include: [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Synonyms:
Renamed species: