Macrohaltica

Macrohaltica
Macrohaltica transversa, Argentina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Alticini
Genus:	Macrohaltica Bechyné, 1957

Macrohaltica, Colombia

Macrohaltica is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 20 described species in Macrohaltica, found in Central and South America. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These 20 species belong to the genus Macrohaltica:

• Macrohaltica aequifacta Bechyné & Bechyné, 1961 (Ecuador and Southern Colombia)
• Macrohaltica amethystina (Olivier, 1808) (Caribbean)
• Macrohaltica complicata (Harold, 1875) (Mexico)
• Macrohaltica convexicollis (Harold, 1880) (South America)
• Macrohaltica costata (Erichson, 1847) (South America)
• Macrohaltica crypta Santisteban, 2006 (Costa Rica and Panamá)
• Macrohaltica gregaria (Harold, 1875) (Colombia and Venezuela)
• Macrohaltica guatemalensis (Jacoby, 1884) (Mexico)
• Macrohaltica jamaicensis (Fabricius, 1792) (Caribbean, Central and South America)
• Macrohaltica janthina (Blanchard, 1851) (Chile)
• Macrohaltica languida (Harold, 1875) (South America)
• Macrohaltica mexicana (Jacoby, 1884) (Mexico)
• Macrohaltica papas Asenjo & Figueroa, 2017 (Colombia)
• Macrohaltica patruelis (Harold, 1875) (México and Guatemala)
• Macrohaltica plicata (Erichson, 1847) (South America)
• Macrohaltica puruchuco Asenjo & Figueroa, 2017 (South America)
• Macrohaltica salvadorensis (Bechyné & Bechyné, 1960) (Central America)
• Macrohaltica steihanseni Asenjo & Figueroa, 2017 (South America)
• Macrohaltica transversa (Germar, 1824) (South America)
• Macrohaltica weyrauchi (Bechyné, 1956) (South America)

References

1. "Macrohaltica". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
2. Nadein, K. S. (2013). "Catalogue of Alticini genera of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
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 . PMC   5740445 . PMID   29290727.