Calomela
Calomela | |
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Calomela curtisi | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Subfamily: | Chrysomelinae |
Genus: | Calomela Hope, 1840 |
Type species | |
Kirby, 1819
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Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Calomela is a genus of beetles commonly called leaf beetles and in the family Chrysomelidae. They are specialist feeders on various species of Acacia[3] and are not reported as a problem species. The beetles are cylindrical when compared with other leaf beetles and their larvae are globose.[4] Calomela includes about 45 species[5] which are found in all states of Australia.[6]
List of species[]
The genus includes the following species:
- (Lea, 1916)
- (Blackburn, 1889)
- (Clark, 1865)
- Blackburn, 1889
- (Blackburn, 1893)
- Calomela bartoni (Baly, 1856)
- (Baly, 1856)
- (Germar, 1848)
- (Fabricius, 1775)
- (Kirby, 1818)
- Blackburn, 1889
- Blackburn, 1890
- (Baly, 1878)
- Lea, 1903
- (Germar, 1848)
- Lea, 1903
- Blackburn, 1893
- (Baly, 1865)
- Lea, 1903
- (Baly, 1856)
- (Baly, 1865)
- Lea, 1903
- Lea, 1916
- (Boisduval, 1835)
- (Boisduval, 1835)
- (Baly, 1876)
- Chu & Reid, 2018
- Lea, 1903
- Lea, 1903
- (Boisduval, 1835)
- (Baly, 1856)
- Lea, 1903
- Lea, 1929
- (Lea, 1916)
- (Baly, 1856)
- Lea, 1915
- Reid, 1989
- (Boisduval, 1835)
- Blackburn, 1893
- Daccordi, 2003
- (Selman, 1976)
- (Jacoby, 1885)
- Blackburn, 1889
- Lhoste, 1934
- Lea, 1915
- (Baly, 1856)
- (Baly, 1864)
References[]
- ^ Reid, C.A.M. (2006). "A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Zootaxa. 1292: 1–119. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1292.1.1. (Erratum: doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1306.1.6)
- ^ Chu, H.V.; Reid, C. (2018). "A new species of Calomela Hope in Southeastern Australia and validation of the generic name (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae)". Australian Entomologist. 45 (4): 475–488. (Abstract)
- ^ "Calomela". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ "Calomela parilis - Calomela gallery". Sites.google.com. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
- ^ "Australian Faunal Directory: Calomela". Environment.gov.au. 2014-02-10. Archived from the original on 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
- ^ "Calomela | Atlas of Living Australia". Bie.ala.org.au. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
Categories:
- Beetles of Australia
- Chrysomelidae genera
- Chrysomelinae
- Taxa named by Frederick William Hope
- Beetles described in 1840