Galeruca

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Galeruca
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Galeruca pomonae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Tribe: Galerucini
Genus: Galeruca
Geoffroy, 1762
Type species
Chrysomela tanaceti
Synonyms [1]

AdimoniaLaicharting, 1781

Galeruca is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae. It is distributed in the Palaearctic and Nearctic realms. In Turkey, the genus is represented by 10 species. [2] [3]

Species

Galeruca contains the following species, divided into seven subgenera: [1]

Subgenus GalerucaGeoffroy, 1762:

Subgenus EmarhopaWeise, 1886

Subgenus FassatiaHavelka, 1954

Subgenus GalerimaReitter, 1903

Subgenus GalerotomaReitter, 1903

Subgenus HaptoscelisWeise, 1886

Subgenus RhabdotillaJacobson, 1911 (formerly GalemiraBeenen, 2003) [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Beenen, R. (2010). "Galerucinae Latreille, 1802". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 443–491. ISBN   978-87-88757-84-2.
  2. ↑ Irfan Aslan, Ron Beenen and Hikmet Özbek. "Biological Aspects of Galeruca circassica Reitter, 1889 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in Relation to the Weed Cephalaria procera Fish. and Lall. (Dipsacaceae) in Anatolia" (PDF). Bonner zoologische Beiträge Band 54 (2005) Heft 4 Seiten 173–177 Bonn, Oktober 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-02-07. Retrieved 2009-12-16.
  3. ↑ Aslan, I., Warchalowski, A. & Özbek, H. 2000. A Preliminary Review of the Subfamily Galerucinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) in Turkey. Journal of the Entomological Research Society 2: 27-42
  4. ↑ Bezděk, J.; Beenen, R. (2020). "Taxonomical changes and comments on Palaearctic and Oriental Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera)". Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 16 (2): 319–327. doi: 10.23885/181433262020162-319327 .


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