Hemisphaerota

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Hemisphaerota
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Hemisphaerota cyanea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Tribe: Hemisphaerotini
Genus: Hemisphaerota
Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836
Synonyms [1]
  • Porphyraspis Hope, 1840

Hemisphaerota is a genus in the subfamily Cassidinae (tortoise beetles and 'hispines') in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 10 described species in Hemisphaerota. [1] [2] [3]

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Hemisphaerota cyanea

Biology and morphology has been studied. [4] The distribution range is circum-Caribbean. [5]

Species

These 10 species belong to the genus Hemisphaerota:

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References

  1. 1 2 "Hemisphaerota Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Hemisphaerota". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. Chaboo, C.S., & T. Nguyen. 2004. Immatures of Hemisphaerota palmarum (Boheman), with a discussion of the caudal process and shield architecture in the tribe Hemisphaerotini (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). New Contributions in Biology of the Chrysomelidae: 171–184.
  4. Waite, Evan W.*, & Caroline S. Chaboo. 2021. Aruba is a new country record for Hemisphaerota cyanea (Say, 1824) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Hemisphaerotini). The Coleopterists Bulletin 75(2): 330–333.

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