Mylassa (beetle)

Mylassa
Mylassa pectinicornis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
(unranked): Camptosomata
Subfamily: Cryptocephalinae
Tribe:
Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso, 2021
Genus:
Stål, 1857

Mylassa is a genus of case-bearing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae.[1][2] It is the only member of the tribe Mylassini within the subfamily Cryptocephalinae.[1] There are seven or eight described species distributed in the southern part of South America.[3]

Species

  • Mylassa chacallaoi Monrós, 1949
  • Mylassa crassicollis (Blanchard, 1851)
  • Mylassa discariana Monrós, 1949
  • Mylassa frigens Monrós, 1949
  • Mylassa obliquata (Suffrian, 1863)
  • Mylassa pectinicornis Suffrian, 1866
  • Mylassa rubronotata (Blanchard, 1851)

References

  1. ^ a b Gómez-Zurita, J.; Cardoso, A. (2021). "Molecular systematics, higher-rank classification and Gondwanan origins of Cryptocephalinae leaf beetles". Zoologica Scripta. 50 (5): 592–615. doi:10.1111/zsc.12501. hdl:10261/250516.
  2. ^ "Mylassa Stål, 1857". GBIF. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  3. ^ Agrain, Federico A.; Chamorro, Maria L.; Cabrera, Nora; Sassi, Davide; Roig-Juñent, Sergio (2017). "A comprehensive guide to the Argentinian case-bearer beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Camptosomata)". ZooKeys (677): 11–88. doi:10.3897/zookeys.677.10778. hdl:11336/43611.

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link).
  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.
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