Biology:Cryocolaspis

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Short description: Genus of leaf beetles from Costa Rica

Cryocolaspis
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Cryocolaspis
Flowers, 2004[1]
Species:
C. crinita
Binomial name
Cryocolaspis crinita
Flowers, 2004[1]

Cryocolaspis is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains only one species, Cryocolaspis crinita, which is known from the mountains of central Costa Rica. It was first established by the American entomologist R. Wills Flowers in 2004.

The generic name is said to be a combination of the Greek word cryo (meaning cold) and the eumolpine generic name Colaspis. The specific name, crinita, is the Latin word for hairy.[1] In ancient Greek kryos (κρὐος) is a noun, meaning "icy cold" or "frost".[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Flowers, R. Wills (2004). "Cryocolaspis, a New Genus and Species of Eumolpinae (Chrysomelidae) from Costa Rica". The Coleopterists Bulletin 58 (1): 97–101. doi:10.1649/607. 
  2. Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie.Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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