Physonota

Physonota
Physonota alutacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Tribe:	Ischyrosonychini
Genus:	Physonota Boheman, 1854

Physonota is a genus of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 40 described species in Physonota. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These 41 species belong to the genus Physonota:

• Physonota alutacea Boheman, 1854 (wild olive tortoise beetle)
• Physonota arizonae Schaeffer, 1925 (Arizona tortoise beetle)
• Physonota attenuata Boheman, 1854
• Physonota breviuscula Boheman, 1856
• Physonota calcarata (Boheman, 1854)
• Physonota caudata Boheman, 1854
• Physonota cerea Boheman, 1854
• Physonota citrina Boheman, 1854
• Physonota citrinella Boheman, 1854
• Physonota convexa Borowiec, 1995
• Physonota dilatata Kirsch, 1876
• Physonota disjuncta (Chevrolat, 1834)
• Physonota eucalypta Boheman, 1862
• Physonota flavago Boheman, 1854
• Physonota gigantea Boheman, 1854
• Physonota helianthi (Randall, 1838) (sunflower tortoise beetle)
• Physonota humilis Boheman, 1856
• Physonota incrustata Boheman, 1854
• Physonota limoniata Boheman, 1862
• Physonota lutarella Boheman, 1856
• Physonota maculiventris Boheman, 1854
• Physonota mexicana Boheman, 1854
• Physonota nitidicollis Boheman, 1854
• Physonota ovalis Boheman, 1854
• Physonota ovipennis Champion, 1894
• Physonota pacifica Spaeth, 1932
• Physonota pellucida Wagener, 1877
• Physonota perampla Champion, 1894
• Physonota picticollis Boheman, 1854
• Physonota plana Boheman, 1854
• Physonota puncticollis Borowiec, 1995
• Physonota quinquepunctata Walsh & Riley
• Physonota separata Boheman, 1854
• Physonota stigmatilis Boheman, 1854
• Physonota sublaevigata Spaeth, 1915
• Physonota translucida Boheman, 1854
• Physonota turgida Boheman, 1854
• Physonota unipunctata (Say, 1824) (horsemint tortoise beetle)
• Physonota vitticollis Boheman, 1854
• Physonota vittifera Spaeth, 1915

References

1. "Physonota Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Physonota". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Physonota genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H.; Downie, N. M.; Jaques, H. E. (1980). How to Know the Beetles. Wm. C. Brown Publishers. ISBN   978-0697047762.
• Barney, R. J.; Clark, S. M.; Riley, E. G. (2007). "Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: Subfamily Cassidinae". Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. 68 (2): 132–144. doi:10.3101/1098-7096(2007)68[132:ALOTLB]2.0.CO;2. S2CID   198148537.
• Borowiec, Lech (1999). A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Biologicae Silesiae. ISBN   978-83-909804-4-7.
• Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication No. 1. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN   978-0-9726087-1-8.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-90-04-26091-7.

External links

• Media related to Physonota at Wikimedia Commons