Cleptor Explained

Cleptor is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from Australia.

Species

Species include:^[1]

• Cleptor apicistriatus Lea, 1915
• Cleptor australis (Jacoby, 1880)^[2]
• Cleptor bigener Lea, 1915
• Cleptor caerulea Lea, 1915
• Cleptor chloropterus Lea, 1915
• Cleptor coriaceus Lea, 1915
• Cleptor electus Lea, 1915
• Cleptor globulus Lea, 1915
• Cleptor goudiei Lea, 1915
• Cleptor haroldi Blackburn, 1900^[3]
• Cleptor laevicollis Lea, 1915
• Cleptor minutus Lea, 1915
• Cleptor mjoebergi Weise, 1923^[4]
• Cleptor multicolor Lea, 1915
• Cleptor pallidiventris Lea, 1915
• Cleptor paradoxa (Blackburn, 1889)
• Cleptor rufimanus Lefèvre, 1885
• Cleptor semiviridis Lea, 1915
• Cleptor striatipectus Lea, 1915
• Cleptor subhumeralis Lea, 1915
• Cleptor tersus Lea, 1915
• Cleptor xanthopus (Harold, 1879)

External links

• Genus Cleptor Lefèvre, 1885 at Australian Faunal Directory

Notes and References

1. A. M.. Lea. 1915. Notes on Australian Eumolpides (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae), with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 39. 102–339.
2. Jacoby. M.. 1879. Descriptions of new species of Phtytophaga (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1879. 773–793.
3. Blackburn. T.. 1900. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXVII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 24. 113–169.
4. Weise. J.. 1923. Chrysomeliden und Coccinelliden aus Queensland. Arkiv för Zoologi. 15. 12. 1–150.