Sphenoraia

Sphenoraia
Sphenoraia hopei, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Galerucinae
Tribe:	Hylaspini
Genus:	Sphenoraia Clark, 1865
Synonyms
NeosermylassaChûjô, 1956 SphenoraioidesLaboissière, 1934

Sphenoraia is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 24 described species in Sphenoraia. ^[1] They are found in Indomalaya and the Palaearctic. ^{[2] [1]}

Sphenoraia nebulosa, China

Species

These 12 species are among those that belong to the genus Sphenoraia:

• Sphenoraia apicalis Kimoto & Takizawa, 1983
• Sphenoraia chujoi Lee, 2014
• Sphenoraia duodecimmaculata Jacoby, 1889
• Sphenoraia hopei Beenen, 2005
• Sphenoraia imitans Jacoby, 1892
• Sphenoraia intermedia Jacoby, 1885
• Sphenoraia javana (Wiedemann, 1819)
• Sphenoraia micans (Fairmair, 1888)
• Sphenoraia nebulosa (Gyllenhaal, 1808)
• Sphenoraia nigra Wang, Li & Yang, 2000
• Sphenoraia rutilans (Hope, 1831)

References

1. 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.
2. "Sphenoraia". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-14.

External links

• Media related to Sphenoraia at Wikimedia Commons