The Criocerinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or
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 ...
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Tribes and genera
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Criocerini
Criocerini is a tribe of shining leaf beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae and subfamily Criocerinae.
Genera
Genera within this tribe include:
*'' Crioceris'' Müller, 1764
*''Lilioceris
''Lilioceris'' is a genus of beetles in the ...
Latreille, 1804
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Crioceris''
Geoffroy, 1762
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Lilioceris
''Lilioceris'' is a genus of beetles in the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae. The genus was first scientifically described in 1912 by Edmund Reitter. ''Lilioceris'' belongs to the subfamily Criocerinae and tribe Criocerini (Latreille, 1807).
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Reitter Reitter is a German occupational surname, which means a "mounted soldier" or "knight", from the Middle High German ''ritære'' (" horseman"). Notable people with the surname include:
* Edmund Reitter (1845–1920), a Moravia-born Austrian-German e ...
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* Tribe
Lemini Heinze, 1962
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Lema''
Fabricius, 1798
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Neolema
''Neolema'' is a genus of 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, maki ...
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Monrós, 1951
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Oulema
''Oulema'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae.Gomez-Zurita, Jesus. (2011). "A new species of Criocerinae (Chrysomelidae) from New Caledonia: ''Oulema (Oulema) taophiloides'' sp. nov." ''Zootaxa'' 2870: 63-68.
Species
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Des Gozis, 1886
References
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Beetle subfamilies
Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille
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