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Anomalini is a tribe of shining leaf chafers in the family
Scarabaeidae The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several sub ...
. There are about 1300 described species in Anomalini worldwide, including 60 in
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Selected genera

* '' Anomala'' Samouelle, 1819 * '' Anomalacra'' Casey, 1915 * '' Leptohoplia'' Saylor, 1935 * ''
Mimela ''Mimela'' is a genus of shining leaf chafer belonging to the family Scarabaeidae subfamily Rutelinae Rutelinae or shining leaf chafers is a subfamily of the scarab beetles ( family Scarabaeidae). It is a very diverse group; distributed over ...
'' Kirby, 1823 * '' Popillia'' Dejean, 1821 * '' Rhinyptia'' Burmeister, 1844 * '' Strigoderma'' Burmeister, 1844


References

* Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ''ZooKeys, vol. 88'', 1–972.


Further reading

* Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida . * * Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company. Rutelinae {{Beetle-stub