Galerucinae

Subfamily of beetles

Galerucinae

Temporal range: Santonian–Recent

PreꞒ

Baccharis leaf beetle, Trirhabda flavolimbata
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Suborder:  | Polyphaga
Infraorder:  | Cucujiformia
Family:  | Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:  | Galerucinae
Latreille, 1802
Tribes[2]

* Alticini Newman, 1834
* Decarthrocerini Laboissière, 1937
* Galerucini Latreille, 1802
* Hylaspini Chapuis, 1875
* Luperini Gistel, 1848
* Metacyclini Chapuis, 1875
* Oidini Laboissière, 1921 (1875)
* Serraticollini White, 1942
* †Taimyralticini Nadein, 2018[1]

Sermylassa halensis in copula Phyllobrotica quadrimaculata Luperaltica nigripalpis

The Galerucinae are a large subfamily of the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), containing about 15,000 species in more than 1000 genera, of which about 500 genera and about 8000 species make up the flea beetle tribe Alticini.[3][4]

The division into tribes is more a matter of tradition than based on modern research. Some genera, for example Yingaresca, are better considered incertae sedis due to a general lack of knowledge. And while a good case can be made for some tribes - namely the Alticini and Galerucini - being all but monophyletic even in their traditional delimitation, others, such as Luperini, appear to be just paraphyletic assemblages of primitive and more basal genera.[citation needed]

Some classifications of Galerucinae include just two tribes, Alticini and Galerucini, and treat all of the tribes of Galerucinae sensu stricto (Decarthrocerini, Galerucini, Hylaspini, Luperini, Metacyclini and Oidini) as subtribes of Galerucini.[5]

## Selected genera

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* Acalymma
* Agelastica
* Aplosonyx
* Arima
* Asbecesta[6]
* Aulacophora
* Belarima
* Calomicrus
* Cneorane
* Diorhabda
* Diabrotica
* Euluperus
* Exosoma
* Falsoexosoma
* Galeruca
* Galerucella
* Leptomona
* Lochmaea
* Longitarsus Latreille, 1829
* Luperus
* Marseulia
* Menippus Clark, 1864
* Monolepta
* Normaltica
* Nymphius
* Oides Weber, 1801
* Phyllobrotica
* Poneridia
* Psylliodes
* Pyrrhalta
* Sermylassa
* Theone
* Trirhabda
* Xanthogaleruca
* Yingaresca Bechyné, 1956

### Fossil genera

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* †Taimyraltica Nadein, 2018[1] Taimyr amber, Russia, Santonian

## See also

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* List of Galerucinae genera (not including Alticini)
* List of flea beetle genera

## References

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1. ^ a b Nadein, Konstantin S.; Perkovsky, Evgeny E. (2018). "A new tribe of Galerucinae leaf beetle (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Taimyr amber". Cretaceous Research. 84: 97–106\. Bibcode:2018CrRes..84...97N. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.10.023.
2. ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Cai, Chenyang (2024-03-13). "On the nomenclatural status of type genera in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (1194): 1–981\. Bibcode:2024ZooK.1194....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1194.106440. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 10955229. PMID 38523865.
3. ^ 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\. Bibcode:2017ZooK..720...91N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13517. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 5740445. PMID 29290727.
4. ^ Nadein, K.S. (2013). "Catalogue of Alticini genera of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Beetles and Coleopterists website. Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg.
5. ^ Nadein, Konstantin S.; Bezděk, Jan (2014). "2.7.8 Galerucinae Latreille, 1802". In Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G. (eds.). Handbook of Zoology. Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Volume 3: Morphology and Systematics (Phytophaga). Berlin - Boston: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 251–259\. doi:10.1515/9783110274462.189. ISBN 978-3-11-027370-0.
6. ^ BEZDĚK, Jan (Dec 17, 2012). "Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Socotra Island, with a review of taxa recorded from Yemen" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 52 (supplementum 2): 544.

## Further reading

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* Wilcox, J.A. (1971-1975). Chrysomelidae. Galerucinae. Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa 78: 1–770.
* "Galerucinae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 16 February 2006.
* Data related to Galerucinae at Wikispecies
* Media related to Galerucinae at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Galerucinae|

* Wikidata: Q1303239
* Wikispecies: Galerucinae
* AFD: Galerucinae
* BioLib: 11867
* BugGuide: 13737
* CoL: JL5
* Fauna Europaea: 242460
* Fauna Europaea (new): 506dc7b0-8abe-4d68-bef4-e37dcbfe2064
* iNaturalist: 245843
* ITIS: 678805
* NBN: NHMSYS0020152176
* NCBI: 63710
* NZOR: e554c7f4-36a5-4bbb-a95c-106251863d50
* Open Tree of Life: 185581
* Paleobiology Database: 70765
* PPE: galerucinae

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