Chrysomela

For other uses, see Chrysomela (disambiguation).

Chrysomela is a genus of leaf beetles found almost throughout the world, but not in Australia. It contains around 40 species, including 7 in eastern and northern Europe.^[4] It also includes at least 17 species in North America, including the cottonwood leaf beetle Chrysomela scripta.^[5]

Chrysomela
Chrysomela populi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Chrysomelinae
Tribe:	Chrysomelini
Genus:	Chrysomela Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Chrysomela populi Linnaeus, 1758 [1]
Synonyms[2][3]
Lina Latreille, 1829 Eleia Gistel, 1848 Gymnota Gistel, 1848 (nec Gistel, 1834) Ernobia Gistel, 1856 Melasoma Stephens, 1831 Microdera Stephens, 1839 (nec Eschscholtz, 1831) Macrolina Motschulsky, 1860 Strickerus Lucas, 1920 Pachylina Medvedev & Chernov, 1969

Chrysomela scripta

Taxonomy

Chrysomela is traditionally broken up into three subgenera, Chrysomela, Macrolina (or Strickerus) and Pachylina.^[6][7] In 1998, researchers Maurizio Biondi and Mauro Daccordi proposed a new classification of Chryomela without any subgenera.^[8] This was followed by the sixth volume of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera.^[2]

Species

These 27 species belong to the genus Chrysomela:^[2][9]

• Chrysomela aeneicollis (Schaeffer, 1928) ^{i c g b}
• Chrysomela collaris Linnaeus, 1758 ^g
  • Chrysomela collaris alpina Zetterstedt, 1838
  • Chrysomela collaris blaisdelli (Van Dyke, 1938)
  • Chrysomela collaris collaris Linnaeus, 1758
  • Chrysomela collaris hyperborea Medvedev & Khruleva, 2011
• Chrysomela confluens Rogers, 1856 ^{i c g b}
• Chrysomela crotchi Brown, 1956 ^{i c g b} (aspen leaf beetle)
• Chrysomela cuprea Fabricius, 1775 ^g
• Chrysomela cyaneoviridis Gruev, 1994
• Chrysomela falsa Brown, 1956 ^{i c g b}
• Chrysomela interrupta Fabricius, 1801 ^{i c g b} (alder leaf beetle)
• Chrysomela invicta Brown, 1956 ^{i c g}
• Chrysomela knabi Brown, 1956 ^{i c g b}
• Chrysomela lapponica Linnaeus, 1758 ^g
• Chrysomela laurentia Brown, 1956 ^{i c g b}
• Chrysomela lineatopunctata Forster, 1771 ^{i c g b}
• Chrysomela mainensis J. Bechyné, 1954 ^{i c g b}
• Chrysomela populi Linnaeus, 1758 ^g
• Chrysomela saliceti (Weise, 1884) ^g
  • Chrysomela saliceti afghanica (Reineck, 1937)
  • Chrysomela saliceti quadricollis (Jakob, 1955)
  • Chrysomela saliceti saliceti (Weise, 1884)
  • Chrysomela saliceti turcestanica (Reineck, 1937)
• Chrysomela salicivorax (Jakob, 1953)
• Chrysomela schaefferi Brown, 1956 ^{i c g b}
• Chrysomela scripta Fabricius, 1801 ^{i c g b} (cottonwood leaf beetle)
• Chrysomela semota Brown, 1956 ^{i c g b}
• Chrysomela sonorae Brown, 1956 ^{i c g b}
• Chrysomela taimyrensis Medvedev & Chernov, 1969
• Chrysomela texana (Schaeffer, 1920) ^{i c g b} (red-headed willow leaf beetle)
• Chrysomela tremula Fabricius, 1787 ^g
  • Chrysomela tremula selengensis (Jakob, 1953)
  • Chrysomela tremula tremula Fabricius, 1787
• Chrysomela vigintipunctata (Scopoli, 1763) ^g
  • Chrysomela vigintipunctata alticola Wang, 1992
  • Chrysomela vigintipunctata vigintipunctata (Scopoli, 1763)
• Chrysomela walshi Brown, 1956 ^{i c g}
• Chrysomela wrangeliana Medvedev, 1973

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[6] c = Catalogue of Life,^[10] g = GBIF,^[11] b = Bugguide.net^[7]