Capraita

Short description: Genus of beetles

Capraita

Capraita scalaris
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Infraorder:  | Cucujiformia
Superfamily:  | Chrysomeloidea
Family:  | Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:  | Galerucinae
Tribe:  | Alticini
Genus:  | Capraita
J. Bechyné, 1957

Capraita is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are some 60 described species in the Nearctic and Neotropics.[1]

Capraita thyamoides

## Selected species

* Capraita carinimera
* Capraita circumdata (Randall, 1838)
* Capraita cuyaba Bechyné, 1957
* Capraita durangoensis (Jacoby, 1892)
* Capraita encarpalis
* Capraita flavida (Horn, 1889)
* Capraita indigoptera (J. L. LeConte, 1878)
* Capraita nigrosignata (Schaeffer, 1920) (germander flea beetle)
* Capraita obsidiana (Fabricius, 1801)
* Capraita pervittata (Blake, 1927)
* Capraita punzonensis
* Capraita quercata (Fabricius, 1801)
* Capraita saltatra (Blatchley, 1923)
* Capraita scalaris (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)
* Capraita sexmaculata (Illiger, 1807) (Charlie Brown flea beetle)
* Capraita spilonota (Blake, 1927)
* Capraita stichocephala
* Capraita sublaevis
* Capraita subvittata (Horn, 1889)
* Capraita suturalis (Fabricius, 1801)
* Capraita texana (Crotch, 1873)
* Capraita thelma
* Capraita thyamoides (Crotch, 1873)
* Capraita virkkii

## References

1. ↑ Nadein, K. S. (2013). "Catalogue of Alticini genera of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg. https://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/addpages/Nadein/Capraita.htm.

## External links

Wikidata ☰ Q14934577 entry

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