Clitenella

Clitenella
Clitenella fulminans, Taiwan
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Galerucini
Genus:	Clitenella Laboissière, 1927
Synonyms
CallopistriaChevrolat in Dejean, 1836

Clitenella is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are five described species in Clitenella, found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Species

These five species belong to the genus Clitenella:

• Clitenella fulminans (Faldermann, 1835)
• Clitenella ignitincta (Fairmaire, 1878)
• Clitenella punctata Laboissiere, 1927 (synonym: Clitenella yunnana(Yang & Li, 1997))
• Clitenella purpureovittata (Chen, 1942)
• Clitenella unicolor Samoderzhenkov, 1988 (synonym: Clitenella sukarnoiMohamedsaid, 2001)

References

1. "Clitenella". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
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. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.720.13517 . PMC   5740445 . PMID   29290727.
3. Zhang, Lijie; Beenen, Ron; Yang, Xingke (2009). "Clitenella yunnana (Yang and Li, 1997), New Combination (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)" . Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 111 (1): 274–275. doi:10.4289/0013-8797-111.1.274. S2CID   85088702 . Retrieved 2021-12-19.
4. Mohamedsaid, Mohamed S. (2001). "The chrysomelid beetles of the subfamily Galerucinae from Bali, Indonesia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Serangga. 6 (1). Retrieved 2021-12-19.
5. Lee, C.-F.; Bezděk, J. (2021). "Taxonomic Notes on Clitenella Laboissière, 1927 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), with Redescription of Three Species". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 75 (4): 845–858. doi:10.1649/0010-065X-75.4.845. S2CID   245539676.