''Saxinis'' 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 ...
. There are at least 10 described species in ''Saxinis''.
[White, Richard E. (1968). ''A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico''. Smithsonian Institution Press.]
Species
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Saxinis apicalis
''Saxinis apicalis'' is a species 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 ...
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J. L. LeConte, 1884
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Saxinis deserticola
''Saxinis deserticola'' is a species of case-bearing leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Central America and North America.
Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species ''Saxinis deserticola'':
* ''Saxinis desertico ...
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Moldenke, 1970
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Saxinis hornii
''Saxinis'' is a genus of case-bearing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 10 described species in ''Saxinis''.White, Richard E. (1968). ''A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico''. Smithsonian Inst ...
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Fall, 1909
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Saxinis knausii
''Saxinis knausii'' is a species of case-bearing leaf beetle 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 ...
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Schaeffer, 1906
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Saxinis omogera
''Saxinis omogera'' is a species in the family Chrysomelidae ("leaf beetles"), in the order Coleoptera ("beetles").
The distribution range of ''Saxinis omogera'' includes Central America and North America.
References
Further reading
* ''Ameri ...
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Lacordaire, 1848
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Saxinis saucia
''Saxinis saucia'' is a species of case-bearing leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Central America and North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western ...
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J. L. LeConte, 1857
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Saxinis sierramadrensis''
Moldenke, 1970
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Saxinis sinuata''
Schaeffer, 1906
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Saxinis sonorensis''
Jacoby, 1889
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Saxinis subpubescens
''Saxinis'' is a genus of case-bearing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 10 described species in ''Saxinis''.White, Richard E. (1968). ''A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico''. Smithsonian Inst ...
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Schaeffer, 1906
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 .
* Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.
* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
* Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". ''Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1'', 290.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Saxinis''
Clytrini
Chrysomelidae genera
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