Sumitrosis Explained

Sumitrosis is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 60 described species in Sumitrosis.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Species

• Sumitrosis amica (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis ancoroides (Schaeffer, 1933)
• Sumitrosis annulipes (Pic, 1932)
• Sumitrosis bifasciata (Pic, 1929)
• Sumitrosis binotaticollis (Pic, 1929)
• Sumitrosis bondari (Uhmann, 1953)
• Sumitrosis brevenotata (Pic, 1929)
• Sumitrosis breviceps (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis bruchi (Uhmann, 1938)
• Sumitrosis chacoensis (Uhmann, 1938)
• Sumitrosis championi (Weise, 1911)
• Sumitrosis congener (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis curta (Pic, 1929)
• Sumitrosis difficilis (Monrós and Viana, 1947)
• Sumitrosis distinctus (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis diversipes (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis flavipennis (Weise, 1910)
• Sumitrosis fryi (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis fuscicornis (Weise, 1910)
• Sumitrosis germaini (Pic, 1929)
• Sumitrosis gestroi (Weise, 1906)
• Sumitrosis heringi (Uhmann, 1935)
• Sumitrosis imparallela (Pic, 1932)
• Sumitrosis inaequalis (Weber, 1801)
• Sumitrosis instabilis (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis lateapicalis (Pic, 1934)
• Sumitrosis latior (Pic, 1932)
• Sumitrosis lebasi (Chapuis, 1877)
• Sumitrosis lepidula (Weise, 1905)
• Sumitrosis maculata (Uhmann, 1931)
• Sumitrosis marginella (Weise, 1905)
• Sumitrosis minima (Pic, 1932)
• Sumitrosis minuta (Pic, 1932)
• Sumitrosis obidosensis (Pic, 1929)
• Sumitrosis obliterata (Chapuis, 1877)
• Sumitrosis obscura (Chapuis, 1877)
• Sumitrosis octostriata (Chapuis, 1877)
• Sumitrosis opacicollis (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis pallescens (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis parallela (Champion, 1894)
• Sumitrosis peruana (Pic, 1929)
• Sumitrosis picta (Weise, 1910)
• Sumitrosis placida (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis pretiosula (Uhmann, 1961)
• Sumitrosis regularis (Weise, 1905)
• Sumitrosis reichardti (Uhmann, 1968)
• Sumitrosis replexa (Uhmann, 1931)
• Sumitrosis rosea (Weber, 1801) (leafminer beetle)
• Sumitrosis semilimbata (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis signifera (Weise, 1905)
• Sumitrosis steinheili (Chapuis, 1877)
• Sumitrosis subangulata (Chapuis, 1877)
• Sumitrosis terminatus (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis tesseraria (Weise, 1905)
• Sumitrosis testacea (Pic, 1934)
• Sumitrosis tibialis (Baly, 1885)
• Sumitrosis trinidadica (Uhmann, 1950)
• Sumitrosis triplehorni
• Sumitrosis varians (Uhmann, 1961)
• Sumitrosis weisei Staines, 1993
• Sumitrosis weyrauchi (Uhmann, 1968)

References

• Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.
• Staines, C. L. (2002). "The New World tribes and genera of hispines (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, vol. 104, no. 3, 721–784.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sumitrosis Genus Information. BugGuide.net. 2018-02-01.
2. Web site: Sumitrosis Report. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 2018-02-01.
3. White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.
4. Web site: North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae). Texas Entomology. Mike Quinn. 2018-02-01.
5. Web site: Staines C.L. (2011). "Catalog of the hispines of the World".. Smithsonian Institution. 2018-02-01.