Biology:Clitenella

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Short description: Genus of leaf beetles

Clitenella
Clitenella fulminans - inat 11192519.jpg
Clitenella fulminans, Taiwan
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Galerucini
Genus: Clitenella
Laboissière, 1927

Clitenella is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are five described species in Clitenella, found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic.[1][2][3][4][5]

Species

These five species belong to the genus Clitenella:

  • Clitenella fulminans (Faldermann, 1835)
  • Clitenella ignitincta (Fairmaire, 1878)
  • Clitenella punctata Laboissiere, 1927 (synonym: Clitenella yunnana (Yang & Li, 1997))
  • Clitenella purpureovittata (Chen, 1942)
  • Clitenella unicolor Samoderzhenkov, 1988 (synonym: Clitenella sukarnoi Mohamedsaid, 2001)

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2182225 entry