''Coleothorpa'' is a genus of case-bearing leaf beetles in the family
Chrysomelidae
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...
. The group is largely composed of species that were originally placed in the genus ''
Euryscopa''; some authorities have suggested placing these species into the genus ''
Coscinoptera'' but the most recent revisions prefer to retain it as a separate genus.
[Uriel Jeshua Sánchez-Reyes, Santiago Niño-Maldonado, Shawn M. Clark, Fatima Magdalena Sandoval-Becerra, Itzcóatl Martínez-Sánchez, José Norberto Lucio-García (2021) New and remarkable distribution record of ''Proctophana basalis'' Lacordaire in northeastern Mexico. ''Southwestern Entomologist'' 45(4): 1085-1090]
Selected species
* ''
Coleothorpa aenescens''
(Crotch, 1873)
* ''
Coleothorpa axillaris''
(J. L. LeConte, 1868)
* ''
Coleothorpa dominicana''
(Fabricius, 1801)
* ''
Coleothorpa mucorea''
(J. L. LeConte, 1858)
* ''
Coleothorpa panochensis''
(Gilbert, 1981)
* ''
Coleothorpa seminuda''
(Horn, 1892)
* ''
Coleothorpa vittigera''
(J. L. LeConte, 1861)
References
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 .
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Clytrini
Chrysomelidae genera
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