The Fulcidacini, sometimes known as the warty leaf beetles, are a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...

within the

leaf beetle 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 ...

subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...

Cryptocephalinae The Cryptocephalinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), and belong to the group of case-bearing leaf beetles called the Camptosomata. The tribes Fulcidacini and Clytrini The Clytrini are a tribe within the leaf beetle sub ...

, though historically they were often treated as a distinct subfamily, Chlamisinae. 11

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with altogether about 400

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are currently placed here; some four-fifths of the species are found in the

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, but the rest is distributed over all other continents except

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Genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

and some selected

include: * '' Chlamisus'' Rafinesque, 1815 ** '' Chlamisus amyemae'' Reid, 1991 ** '' Chlamisus arizonensis'' Linell, 1898 ** '' Chlamisus aterrimus'' Lea, 1904 ** '' Chlamisus flavidus'' Karren, 1972 ** ''

Chlamisus foveolatus ''Chlamisus foveolatus'' is a species of warty 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 t ...

'' Knoch, 1801 ** ''

Chlamisus huachucae ''Chlamisus'' is a genus of cloaked warty 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 ...

'' Schaeffer, 1906 ** ''

Chlamisus maculipes ''Chlamisus maculipes'' is a species of warty 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 th ...

'' Chevrolat, 1835 ** ''

Chlamisus mimosae ''Chlamisus'' is a genus of cloaked warty 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 ...

'' Karren, 1989 ** ''

Chlamisus minax ''Chlamisus'' is a genus of cloaked warty 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 ...

'' Lacordaire ** ''

Chlamisus nigromaculatus ''Chlamisus'' is a genus of cloaked warty 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 ...

'' Karren, 1972 ** ''

Chlamisus quadrilobatus ''Chlamisus'' is a genus of cloaked warty 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 ...

'' Schaeffer, 1926 ** '' Chlamisus texanus'' Schaeffer, 1906 * '' Diplacaspis'' Jacobson, 1924 ** '' Diplacaspis prosternalis'' Schaeffer, 1906 * ''

Exema ''Exema'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the tribe Fulcidacini. They occur worldwide, with 9 species in North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is b ...

'' * '' Poropleura'' Lacordaire, 1848 (=''Fulcidax'' Voet, 1806, an unavailable nameKrell, F-T. (2012) On nomenclature and synonymy of ''Trichius rosaceus'', ''T. gallicus'', and ''T. zonatus'' (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini). ''Zootaxa'' 3278: 61–68.) ** '' Poropleura bacca'' (Kirby, 1818) ** '' Poropleura coelestina'' (Lacordaire, 1848) ** '' Poropleura monstrosa'' (Fabricius, 1798) * '' Melitochlamys'' Monrós, 1948 * ''

Neochlamisus ''Neochlamisus'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the tribe Fulcidacini (the warty leaf beetles). They are members of the case-bearing leaf beetle group, the Camptosomata. Measuring 3–4 millimeters in length as adults, they are cryptic, superfi ...

'' (c.17 species) * '' Pseudochlamys'' Lacordaire, 1848 ** '' Pseudochlamys megalostomoides'' Lacordaire, 1849 ** '' Pseudochlamys semirufescens'' Karren, 1972

Footnotes

References

* (2008): Faecal case architecture in the ''gibbosus'' species group of ''Neochlamisus'' Karren, 1972 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Chlamisini). '' Zool. J. Linn. Soc.'' 152(2): 315–351. (HTML abstract)

External links

* Cryptocephalinae {{Cryptocephalinae-stub