Timarcha
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| Timarcha | |
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| Timarcha tenebricosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Chrysomelinae |
| Tribe: | Timarchini Motschulsky, 1860 |
| Genus: | Timarcha Samouelle, 1819[1] |
| Type species | |
| Chrysomela tenebricosa Fabricius, 1775
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Timarcha is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, with more than 100 described species in three subgenera. The most widely known species is T. tenebricosa, the bloody-nosed beetle. All species are black, wingless organisms. Timarcha are herbivorous species, living mostly on plants belonging to Rubiaceae and Plumbaginaceae, although a few can feed on Brassicaceae and Rosaceae. Timarcha is the only member of the tribe Timarchini.
Species
[edit]These 20 species belong to the genus Timarcha:
- Timarcha affinis Laboissière, 1937 g
- Timarcha cerdo Stål, 1863 i c g
- Timarcha cornuta Bechyné, 1944 g
- Timarcha cyanescens Fairmaire, 1862 g
- Timarcha coarcticollis Fairmaire, 1873 g
- Timarcha daillei Laboissière, 1939 g
- Timarcha goettingensis (Linnaeus, 1758) g
- Timarcha insparsa
- Timarcha interstitialis Fairmaire, 1862 g
- Timarcha intricata Haldeman, 1853 i c g b
- Timarcha italica Herrich-Schäffer, 1838 g
- Timarcha lugens
- Timarcha marginicollis
- Timarcha maritima Perris, 1855 g
- Timarcha metallica (Laicharting, 1781) g
- Timarcha monticola Dufour, 1851 g
- Timarcha nicaeensis A.Villa & G.B.Villa, 1835 g
- Timarcha obsoleta Laboissière, 1937 g
- Timarcha recticollis Fairmaire, 1862 g
- Timarcha sardea (Villa, 1835) g
- Timarcha sinuatocollis Fairmaire, 1862 g
- Timarcha strangulata Fairmaire, 1862 g
- Timarcha temperei Jeanne, 1965 g
- Timarcha tenebricosa (Fabricius, 1775) g (Bloody-nosed beetle)
Data sources: i = ITIS,[2] c = Catalogue of Life,[3] g = GBIF,[4] b = Bugguide.net[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Vela, J.M.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.Á.; Daccordi, M. (2020). "The species of Timarcha Samouelle, 1819 described by Linnaeus (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". ZooKeys (986): 55–80. doi:10.3897/zookeys.986.57158. PMC 7661484. PMID 33223880.
- ^ "Timarcha Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ "Browse Timarcha". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ "Timarcha". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ "Timarcha Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
External links
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Data related to Timarcha at Wikispecies- List of 111 species
- Gómez-Zurita J, Juan C, Petitpierre E (February 2000). "The evolutionary history of the genus Timarcha (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) inferred from mitochondrial COII gene and partial 16S rDNA sequences". Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 14 (2): 304–17. doi:10.1006/mpev.1999.0712. PMID 10679162.
