Fulcidacini Explained

The Fulcidacini, sometimes known as the warty leaf beetles, are a tribe within the leaf beetle subfamily Cryptocephalinae,^[1] though historically they were often treated as a distinct subfamily, Chlamisinae. 11 genera with altogether about 400 species are currently placed here; some four-fifths of the species are found in the Neotropics, but the rest is distributed over all other continents except Antarctica.^[2]

Genera and species

Genera and some selected species include:

• Chlamisus Rafinesque, 1815
  • Chlamisus amyemae Reid, 1991
  • Chlamisus arizonensis Linell, 1898
  • Chlamisus aterrimus Lea, 1904
  • Chlamisus flavidus Karren, 1972
  • Chlamisus foveolatus Knoch, 1801
  • Chlamisus huachucae Schaeffer, 1906
  • Chlamisus maculipes Chevrolat, 1835
  • Chlamisus mimosae Karren, 1989
  • Chlamisus minax Lacordaire
  • Chlamisus nigromaculatus Karren, 1972
  • Chlamisus quadrilobatus Schaeffer, 1926
  • Chlamisus texanus Schaeffer, 1906
• Diplacaspis Jacobson, 1924
  • Diplacaspis prosternalis Schaeffer, 1906
• Exema
• Poropleura Lacordaire, 1848 (=Fulcidax Voet, 1806, an unavailable name^[3])
  • Poropleura bacca (Kirby, 1818)
  • Poropleura coelestina (Lacordaire, 1848)
  • Poropleura monstrosa (Fabricius, 1798)
• Melitochlamys Monrós, 1948
• Neochlamisus (c.17 species)
• Pseudochlamys Lacordaire, 1848
  • Pseudochlamys megalostomoides Lacordaire, 1849
  • Pseudochlamys semirufescens Karren, 1972

References

• (2008): Faecal case architecture in the gibbosus species group of Neochlamisus Karren, 1972 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Chlamisini). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 152(2): 315–351. (HTML abstract)

Notes and References

1. Bouchard . P. . Bousquet . Y. . Davies . A. . Alonso-Zarazaga . M. . Lawrence . J. . Lyal . C. . Newton . A. . Reid . C. . Schmitt . M. . Ślipiński . A. . Smith . A. . Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) . ZooKeys . 2011 . 88 . 1–972 . 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . 21594053. 3088472. free .
2. Chaboo et al. (2008)
3. Krell, F-T. (2012) On nomenclature and synonymy of Trichius rosaceus, T. gallicus, and T. zonatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Trichiini). Zootaxa 3278: 61–68.