Sphenoraia

Sphenoraia
Sphenoraia hopei, India
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: Sphenoraia
Clark, 1865
Synonyms
  • Neosermylassa Chûjô, 1956
  • Sphenoraioides Laboissière, 1934

Sphenoraia is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 24 described species in Sphenoraia. They are found in Indomalaya and the Palaearctic.

Sphenoraia nebulosa, China

Species

These 12 species are among those that belong to the genus Sphenoraia:

References

  1. 1 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.
  2. ↑ "Sphenoraia". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-14.