Lachnaia

Genus of beetles

Lachnaia

Lachnaia trisignata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Suborder:  | Polyphaga
Infraorder:  | Cucujiformia
Family:  | Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:  | Cryptocephalinae
Tribe:  | Clytrini
Genus:  | Lachnaia
Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836

Lachnaia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Cryptocephalinae, tribe Clytrini. Multiple species in this genus are known to be myrmecophiles, such as the larvae of L. italica. [1]

## Species

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* Lachnaia caprai Grasso, 1958
* Lachnaia cylindrica (Lacordaire, 1848)
* Lachnaia hirta (Fabricius, 1801)
* Lachnaia italica Weise, 1881
* Lachnaia orientalis Weise, 1881
* Lachnaia paradoxa (GA Olivier, 1808)
* Lachnaia pseudobarathraea K. Daniel & J. Daniel, 1898
* Lachnaia pubescens (Dufour, 1820)
* Lachnaia puncticollis Chevrolat, 1840
* Lachnaia sexpunctata (Scopoli, 1763)
* Lachnaia tristigma (Lacordaire, 1848)
* Lachnaia variolosa (Linnaeus, 1767)
* Lachnaia zoiai Regalin, 1997

## References

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1. ^ Agrain, Federico; Buffington, Matthew; Chaboo, Caroline; Chamorro, Maria; Schöller, Matthias (2015-12-17). "Leaf beetles are ant-nest beetles: the curious life of the juvenile stages of case-bearers (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". ZooKeys (547). Pensoft Publishers: 133–164\. doi:10.3897/zookeys.547.6098. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 4714338. PMID 26798319.

Taxon identifiers

Lachnaia|

* Wikidata: Q1935385
* Wikispecies: Lachnaia
* BioLib: 11523
* BOLD: 173146
* EoL: 2870639
* Fauna Europaea: 241085
* Fauna Europaea (new): 77f3c294-6784-4a23-b87c-0ecb9103476c
* GBIF: 4404525
* iNaturalist: 319265
* Insecta.pro: 981801
* IRMNG: 1407594
* NCBI: 41129
* Open Tree of Life: 918395

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