Fulcidacini

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Neochlamisus sp. larva, removed from larval fecal case

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Exema sp. larva in fecal case

The Fulcidacini, sometimes known as the warty leaf beetles, are a tribe within the leaf beetle subfamily Cryptocephalinae, though historically they were often treated as a distinct subfamily, Chlamisinae. 11 genera with altogether about 400 species are currently placed here; some four-fifths of the species are found in the Neotropics, but the rest is distributed over all other continents except Antarctica.

Genera and species

Genera and some selected species include:

• Chlamisus Rafinesque, 1815
  • Chlamisus amyemae Reid, 1991
  • Chlamisus arizonensis Linell, 1898
  • Chlamisus aterrimus Lea, 1904
  • Chlamisus flavidus Karren, 1972
  • Chlamisus foveolatus Knoch, 1801
  • Chlamisus huachucae Schaeffer, 1906
  • Chlamisus maculipes Chevrolat, 1835
  • Chlamisus mimosae Karren, 1989
  • Chlamisus minax Lacordaire
  • Chlamisus nigromaculatus Karren, 1972
  • Chlamisus quadrilobatus Schaeffer, 1926
  • Chlamisus texanus Schaeffer, 1906
• Diplacaspis Jacobson, 1924
  • Diplacaspis prosternalis Schaeffer, 1906
• Exema
• Melitochlamys Monrós, 1948
• Neochlamisus (c.17 species)
• Poropleura Lacordaire, 1848 (= Fulcidax Voet, 1806, an unavailable name)
  • Poropleura bacca (Kirby, 1818)
  • Poropleura coelestina Lacordaire, 1848
  • Poropleura cuprea (Klug, 1824)
  • Poropleura lisai (Uliana & Daccordi, 2022)
  • Poropleura monstrosa (Fabricius, 1798)
• Pseudochlamys Lacordaire, 1848
  • Pseudochlamys megalostomoides Lacordaire, 1849
  • Pseudochlamys semirufescens Karren, 1972

References

• Chaboo, Caroline S.; Brown, Christopher G. & Funk, Daniel J. (2008): Faecal case architecture in the gibbosus species group of Neochlamisus Karren, 1972 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Chlamisini). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 152(2): 315–351. (HTML abstract)