Biology:Metrioidea
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Short description: Genus of beetles
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Luperini |
| Subtribe: | Luperina |
| Genus: | Metrioidea Fairmaire, 1881 |
Metrioidea is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 18 described species in Metrioidea. It is found in Australasia, the Nearctic, the Neotropics, and Indomalaya.[1][2][3]
Species
These 18 species belong to the genus Metrioidea:
- Metrioidea atriceps (Horn, 1893)
- Metrioidea bimaculatus (Perroud & Montrouzier, 1864)
- Metrioidea blakeae (Wilcox, 1965)
- Metrioidea brunnea (Crotch, 1873) (corn silk beetle)
- Metrioidea chiricahuensis (Blake, 1942)
- Metrioidea convexa (Blake, 1942)
- Metrioidea cornuphallus Beenen, 2008
- Metrioidea elachista (Blake, 1942)
- Metrioidea lateralimaculatus Beenen, 2008
- Metrioidea millei Beenen, 2008
- Metrioidea morula (J.L.LeConte, 1865)
- Metrioidea ocularis (Blake, 1942)
- Metrioidea petrae Beenen, 2008
- Metrioidea popenoei (Blake, 1942)
- Metrioidea punctatissima (Blake, 1942)
- Metrioidea schoelleri Beenen, 2008
- Metrioidea varicornis (J. L. LeConte, 1868)
- Metrioidea wanati Beenen, 2008
References
Further reading
- Nie, R-E; Bezděk, J.; Yang, X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13517. PMID 29290727.
- Wilcox, John A. (1965). A Synopsis of the North American Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). New York State Museum and Science Service. https://books.google.com/books?id=iW1EAAAAIAAJ.
- 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.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q2490921 entry
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