Fulcidacini

Chlamisini
Adult Neochlamisus bebbianae on the host plant Salix bebbiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Cryptocephalinae
Tribe:	Chlamisini Gressitt, 1946
Genera
11, see text
Synonyms
Chlamisinae

The Chlamisini form a tribe within the leaf beetle subfamily Cryptocephalinae, though historically they were often treated as a distinct subfamily, Chlamisinae. 11 genera with altogether about 400 species are currently placed here; some four-fifths of the species are found in the Neotropics, but the rest is distributed over all other continents except Antarctica.

Genera and some selected species include:

• Chlamisus Rafinesque, 1815
  • Chlamisus amyemae Reid, 1991
  • Chlamisus arizonensis Linell, 1898
  • Chlamisus aterrimus Lea, 1904
  • Chlamisus flavidus Karren, 1972
  • Chlamisus foveolatus Knoch, 1801
  • Chlamisus huachucae Schaeffer, 1906
  • Chlamisus maculipes Chevrolat, 1835
  • Chlamisus mimosae Karren, 1989
  • Chlamisus minax Lacordaire
  • Chlamisus nigromaculatus Karren, 1972
  • Chlamisus quadrilobatus Schaeffer, 1926
  • Chlamisus texanus Schaeffer, 1906
• Diplacaspis Jacobson, 1924
  • Diplacaspis prosternalis Schaeffer, 1906
• Exema
• Fulcidax Voet, 1806
  • Fulcidax bacca Kirby, 1818
  • Fulcidax coelestina Lacordaire
  • Fulcidax monstrosa Fabricius, 1798
• Melitochlamys Monrós, 1948
• Neochlamisus – warty leaf beetles (c.17 species)
• Pseudochlamys Lacordaire, 1848
  • Pseudochlamys megalostomoides Lacordaire, 1849
  • Pseudochlamys semirufescens Karren, 1972

References

• Chaboo, Caroline S.; Brown, Christopher G. & Funk, Daniel J. (2008): Faecal case architecture in the gibbosus species group of Neochlamisus Karren, 1972 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Chlamisini). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 152(2): 315–351. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00343.x (HTML abstract)

External links

• "Chlamisini". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.