Omophoita

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Omophoita
Eight-spotted Flea Beetle - Omophoita cyanipennis - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg
Omophoita cyanipennis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Omophoita
Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836
Synonyms
  • Ptena Chevrolat, 1836
  • Homophoeta Erichson, 1847 (Emend.)
  • Homophoita Weise, 1921 (Missp.)
  • Longasphaera Bechyné, 1955

Omophoita is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are some 50 described species in North America and the Neotropics.[1]

Selected species[]

  • (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • (Fabricius, 1787)
  • Bechyné, 1958
  • (Erichson, 1848)
  • Omophoita cyanipennis (Fabricius, 1798) (eight-spotted flea beetle)
  • Bechyne
  • (Olivier, 1807)
  • (Fabricius, 1798)
  • Bechyné, 1958

References[]

  1. ^ Nadein, K. S. (2013). "Catalogue of Alticini genera of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg. Retrieved 2019-07-02.

Further reading[]

  • 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.

External links[]

  • Media related to Omophoita at Wikimedia Commons


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