Ischyrosonychini Explained

Ischyrosonychini is a tribe of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 7 genera and at least 70 described species in Ischyrosonychini. Juvenile stages have been described.^[1]

Genera

These seven genera belong to the tribe Ischyrosonychini:

• Asteriza Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836
• Cistudinella Champion, 1894
• Enagria Spaeth, 1913
• Eurypedus Gistel, 1834
• Eurypepla Boheman, 1854
• Physonota Boheman, 1854
• Platycycla Boheman, 1854

Further reading

• Book: A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). 1999. Borowiec . Lech. Biologicae Silesiae. 978-83-909804-4-7.
• Book: Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). 2003. Riley . Edward G.. Clark . Shawn M.. Seeno . Terry N.. The Coleopterists' Society. Special Publication No. 1. 978-0-9726087-1-8.

Notes and References

1. López-Pérez, Sara, Geovanni M. Rodríguez-Mirón, & Caroline S. Chaboo. 2021. Pupal morphology of Physonota humilis Boheman, 1856 and Physonota stigmatilis Boheman 1854 (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Ischyrosonychini). Zootaxa 5027(1): 107–119