Morphosphaera

Morphosphaera
Morphosphaera chrysomeloides, Taiwan
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Hylaspini
Genus:	Morphosphaera Baly, 1861

Morphosphaera is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 11 described species in Morphosphaera. They are found in Indomalaya and eastern Asia. ^{[1] [2]}

Morphosphaera sumatrana, Indonesia

Species

These 11 species belong to the genus Morphosphaera: ^{[3] [1]}

• Morphosphaera albipennis Allard, 1889
• Morphosphaera bimaculata Chujo, 1938
• Morphosphaera caerulea (Schönfeldt, 1890)
• Morphosphaera chrysomeloides (Bates, 1866)
• Morphosphaera collaris Laboissière, 1930
• Morphosphaera coomani Laboissière, 1930
• Morphosphaera japonica (Hornstedt, 1788)
• Morphosphaera maculicollis Baly, 1861
• Morphosphaera montivaga Maulik, 1936
• Morphosphaera sumatrana Jacoby, 1886
• Morphosphaera takizawai Lee & Bezdĕk, 2016

References

1. "Morphosphaera". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
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. Bibcode:2017ZooK..720...91N. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.720.13517 . PMC   5740445 . PMID   29290727.
3. Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2016). "Revision of the genus Morphosphaera Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)" . Zootaxa. 4179 (1): 1–41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.1. PMID   27811689.

External links

• Media related to Morphosphaera at Wikimedia Commons