Monolepta
Monolepta is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 20 described species in Monolepta, found primarily in Indomalaya, East Asia, and Africa.[1]
| Monolepta | |
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| Monolepta marginella, South Africa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Luperini |
| Genus: | Monolepta Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836 |
Species
These 21 species belong to the genus Monolepta:
- Monolepta australis
- Monolepta bifasciata
- Monolepta bioculata Fabricius, 1781
- Monolepta cavipennis
- Monolepta cruciata Guérin de Méneville, 1847
- Monolepta kuroheri Kimoto, 1966
- Monolepta leuce Weise, 1903
- Monolepta marginella Weise, 1903
- Monolepta melanogaster Wiedemann, 1823
- Monolepta minima
- Monolepta nigricollis
- Monolepta oculata
- Monolepta orientalis
- Monolepta pallidula
- Monolepta quadriguttata
- Monolepta rufofulva Chujo, 1938
- Monolepta sauteri Chujo, 1935
- Monolepta shirozui
- Monolepta signata (Olivier, 1808)
- Monolepta subsuturalis
- Monolepta themedicola
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References
- "Monolepta". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
Further reading
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7.
- 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. PMC 5740445. PMID 29290727.
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