Luperini (beetle)

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]

Phyllobrotica quadrimaculata
Phyllobrotica limbata

Luperini
Acalymma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Luperini
Gistel, 1848

Genera

These 31 genera belong to the tribe Luperini:[4][1][2]

References

  1. "Luperini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  2. Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13517. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5740445. PMID 29290727.

Further reading

  • Media related to Luperini at Wikimedia Commons


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