Biology:Asphaera

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Short description: Genus of beetles

Asphaera
Asphaera lustrans P1150196a.jpg
Asphaera lustrans
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Asphaera
Duponchel & Chevrolat, 1842[1]
Type species
Asphaera subfasciata
Clark, 1865[2]
Synonyms[2]
  • Ptena Chevrolat, 1836
  • Asphaera Chevrolat, 1836
    (nomen nudum)

Asphaera is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, containing some 130 species, found in North America, Central America, and the Neotropics.[3]

Selected species

  • Asphaera abdominalis (Chevrolat, 1835)
  • Asphaera bitaeniata (Jacoby, 1880)
  • Asphaera cruciata (Olivier, 1808)
  • Asphaera discicollis Jacoby, 1905
  • Asphaera fuscofasciata Jacoby, 1905
  • Asphaera lustrans (Crotch, 1873) (shiny flea beetle)
  • Asphaera magistralis
  • Asphaera meticulosa
  • Asphaera nobilatata (Fabricius, 1887)
  • Asphaera paralleloptera (Bezzi, 1913)[4]
  • Asphaera quadrifasciata
  • Asphaera reflexicollis Bechyne
  • Asphaera separata (Harold, 1881)
  • Asphaera umbraticus (Olivier, 1808)
  • Asphaera vernalis Jacoby, 1905
  • Asphaera weyrauchi Bechyne


asphaera paralleloptera

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q14933739 entry