Biology:Anisostena

Short description: Genus of beetles

Anisostena
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Tribe:	Chalepini
Genus:	Anisostena Weise, 1910

Anisostena is a genus of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 30 described species in Anisostena.

Species

These 30 species belong to the genus Anisostena:

• Anisostena angustata Pic, 1934
• Anisostena ariadne (Newman, 1841)
• Anisostena arizonica Schaeffer, 1933
• Anisostena bellula (Baly, 1864)
• Anisostena bicolor (J.Smith, 1885)
• Anisostena bicoloriceps Pic, 1928
• Anisostena bondari (Maulik, 1929)
• Anisostena breveapicalis Pic, 1934
• Anisostena californica Van Dyke, 1925
• Anisostena confusa Staines, 1994
• Anisostena cyanea Staines, 1994
• Anisostena cyanoptera (Suffrian, 1868)
• Anisostena daguerrei Uhmann, 1938
• Anisostena elegantula (Baly, 1864)
• Anisostena funesta (Baly, 1885)
• Anisostena gracilis (Horn, 1883)
• Anisostena kansana Schaeffer, 1933
• Anisostena lecontii (Baly, 1864)
• Anisostena missionensis Monrós & Viana, 1947
• Anisostena nigrita (Olivier, 1808)
• Anisostena nunenmacheri (Weise, 1907)
• Anisostena perspicua (Horn, 1883)
• Anisostena pilatei (Baly, 1864)
• Anisostena prompta Weise, 1910
• Anisostena scapularis Uhmann, 1964
• Anisostena suturalis (Weise, 1907)
• Anisostena texana Schaeffer, 1933
• Anisostena trilineata (Baly, 1864)
• Anisostena vittata Staines, 1994
• Anisostena warchalowskii Staines, 2007

Further reading

• Staines, C. L. (1994). "A revision of the genus Anisostena Weise (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Hispinae). Part II. The subgenus Anisostena: Key to the species groups and the ariadne species group". Insecta Mundi 8 (1–2): 125–135. ISSN 0749-6737. http://journals.fcla.edu/mundi/article/view/24753. 
• Staines, C. L. (1994). "A revision of the genus Anisostena Weise (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Hispinae). Part III. The pilatei species group". Insecta Mundi 8 (3–4): 213–226. ISSN 0749-6737. http://journals.fcla.edu/mundi/article/view/24758. 
• Barney, R. J.; Clark, S. M.; Riley, E. G. (2007). "Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: Subfamily Cassidinae". Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science 68 (2): 132–144. doi:10.3101/1098-7096(2007)68[132:ALOTLB2.0.CO;2]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/335735. 
• Borowiec, Lech (1999). A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Biologicae Silesiae. ISBN 978-83-909804-4-7. 
• Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication No. 1. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN 978-0-9726087-1-8. 
• Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. 2013. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7. 

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