Coraia
Topic: Biology
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Short description: Genus of beetles
| Coraia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Galerucini |
| Genus: | Coraia H. Clark, 1865 |
| Type species | |
| Coraia maculicollis H. Clark, 1865
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Coraia is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least four described species in Coraia. They are distributed from southern Texas to Central America.[1][2][3]
Species
These four species belong to the genus Coraia:
- Coraia apicicornis Jacoby, 1892
- Coraia clarki Jacoby, 1886
- Coraia maculicollis H. Clark, 1865
- Coraia subcyanescens (Schaeffer, 1906)
References
Further reading
- 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. PMID 29290727.
- Wilcox, John A. (1965). A Synopsis of the North American Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). New York State Museum and Science Service. https://books.google.com/books?id=iW1EAAAAIAAJ.
- 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.
- Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. 2013. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7.
Wikidata ☰ Q646247 entry
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