Morphosphaera

Morphosphaera
Morphosphaera chrysomeloides, Taiwan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Hylaspini
Genus: Morphosphaera
Baly, 1861

Morphosphaera is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 11 described species in Morphosphaera. They are found in Indomalaya and eastern Asia.

Morphosphaera sumatrana, Indonesia

Species

These 11 species belong to the genus Morphosphaera:

References

  1. 1 2 "Morphosphaera". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  2. ↑ Nie, R-E; Bezděk, J.; Yang, X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. Bibcode:2017ZooK..720...91N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13517. PMC 5740445. PMID 29290727.
  3. ↑ Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2016). "Revision of the genus Morphosphaera Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)". Zootaxa. 4179 (1): 1–41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.1. PMID 27811689.