Clytrasoma
| Clytrasoma | |
|---|---|
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| Cyltrasoma palliatum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Cryptocephalinae |
| Tribe: | Clytrini |
| Genus: | Clytrasoma Jacoby, 1908 |
| Type species | |
| Clythra palliata Fabricius, 1801 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Clytromorpha Achard, 1920 | |
Clytrasoma is a genus of leaf-beetles with several species in tropical Asia and Africa. The antennae are 11 or 12 segmented and are pectinate. Like other Clytrini, the body of the beetles is very cylindrical in females and widened in males[1] and usually are brightly patterned in red or yellow and black. Little is known about their biology but they are thought to be myrmecophiles as a pupa and an adult of C. maschwitzi was found in the nest of a Camponotus ant species. Several other Clytrine beetles have been found in the nests of Camponotus.[2][3]
Species in the genus include:
- Clytrasoma balyi Monrós, 1953 = distinguendum (Baly, 1865) - Malaysia, Penang
- Clytrasoma bistripunctatum Medvedev, 1999 - Malaysia, Sabah, Sandakan
- Clytrasoma palliatum (Fabricius, 1801) - India, Sri Lanka, Birma, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, China (South)
- Clytrasoma laysi Medvedev, 2002 - Philippines[4]
- Clytrasoma maschwitzi Schöller, 2007 - Malaysia
- Clytrasoma brivioi Takizawa, 1990 - India
- Clytrasoma celebensis Medvedev, 1999 - Indonesia, Sulawesi, Toli Toli
- Clytrasoma cconformis (Lacordaire, 1848) - Kashmir, Punjab, Bengal = var. octomaculatum {{small|Pic, 1932) - Himalaya
- Clytrasoma laosensis Pic, 1928 - Laos
- Clytrasoma mediofasciatum Pic, 1934 - Philippines
- Clytrasoma mohamedsaidi Medvedev, 1999 - East Malaysia, Sabah, Crocker Range
- Clytrasoma nathani Pic, 1943 - India
- Clytrasoma tonkineum Pic, 1934 - Vietnam (North and South)
- Subgenus Clytromorpha Achard, 1920 - Afrotropical[5]
- Clytrasoma aequinoctialis (Lacordaire, 1848) - Guinea
- Clytrasoma annulipes Pic, 1952 - Benin
- Clytrasoma connectens (Jacoby, 1895) - Togo
- Clytrasoma decumanum (Illiger, 1800) - Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Republic Congo
- Clytrasoma militaris (Jacoby, 1895) - Togo, Benin
References
[edit]- ↑ Kimoto, Shinsaku; Gressitt, J.L. (1981). "Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. II. Clytrinae, Cryptocephalinae, Chlamisinae, Lamprosomatinae and Chrysomelinae" (PDF). Pacific Insects. 23 (3–4): 286–391.
- ↑ Schöller, Matthias; Witte, Volker (2007). "A review of the genus Clytrasoma Jacoby 1908, with description of a new species collected within a Camponotus sp. ant-nest (Insecta: Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae; Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 87 (1): 51–61.
- ↑ Agrain, Federico A.; Buffington, Matthew L.; Chaboo, Caroline S.; Chamorro, Maria L.; Schöller, Matthias (2015). "Leaf beetles are ant-nest beetles: the curious life of the juvenile stages of case-bearers (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". ZooKeys (547): 133–164. Bibcode:2015ZooK..547..133A. doi:10.3897/zookeys.547.6098. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 4714338. PMID 26798319.
- ↑ Medvedev, L.N. (2002). "New and poorly known Chrysomelidae from the Philippines (Insecta, Coleoptera)" (PDF). Spixiana. 25 (1): 59–67.
- ↑ Achard, J. (1920). "Les espèces africaines du genre Clytrasoma Jac". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France: 62–65. doi:10.3406/bsef.1920.26565.