Luperini (beetle)

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Luperini
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Luperini
Gistel, 1848

Luperini is a tribe of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 30 genera and 500 described species in Luperini. [1] [2] [3]

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Phyllobrotica quadrimaculata
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Phyllobrotica limbata

Genera

The genera below belong to the tribe Luperini: [1] [2] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Luperini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  2. Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Davies, A. E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M. A.; Lawrence, J. F.; Lyal, C. H. C.; Newton, A. F.; Reid, C. A. M.; Schmitt, M.; Ślipiński, S. A.; Smith, A. B. T. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088472 . PMID   21594053.
  3. 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. Bibcode:2017ZooK..720...91N. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.720.13517 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   5740445 . PMID   29290727.
  4. Prado, L. R. (2013). "Review on the use of sexually dimorphic characters in the taxonomy of Diabroticites (Galerucinae, Luperini, Diabroticina)". ZooKeys (332): 33–54. Bibcode:2013ZooK..332...33P. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.332.4931 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3805318 . PMID   24163580.
  5. Yang, X.; Ge, S.; Nie, R.; Ruan, Y.; Li, W., eds. (2015). Chinese Leaf Beetles. Beijing: Science Press. ISBN   978-7-03-046884-0.
  6. Bezděk, J.; Nie, R.-E. (2019). "Taxonomical changes and new records of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions". Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 22 (3): 655–665. doi: 10.1016/j.aspen.2019.05.002 . ISSN   1226-8615. S2CID   155530357.
  7. Bezděk, J. (2021). "Redefinition of Liroetis, with descriptions of two new species and an annotated list of species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae . 61 (2): 529–614. doi: 10.37520/aemnp.2021.030 .

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