Coraia

Short description: Genus of beetles

Coraia

Scientific classification
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

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

1. ↑ "Coraia Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=719656.
2. ↑ "Coraia". https://www.gbif.org/species/1048439.
3. ↑ "Coraia genus Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/289129.

## 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.

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