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Isotes

Isotes is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are currently about 180 described species in Isotes. They are found in the Neotropics.

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Isotes
Isotes spilothorax, Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Luperini
Subtribe: Diabroticina
Genus: Isotes
Weise, 1922
Synonyms
  • Synbrotica Bechyné, 1956
Isotes tetraspilota, Mexico source ↗
Isotes octosignata, Mexico source ↗

Isotes is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are currently about 180 described species in Isotes. They are found in the Neotropics.1234

Species

These 59 species are among those that belong to the genus Isotes:234

  • Isotes agatha (Bechyné & Bechyné, 1969)
  • Isotes albidocincta (Baly, 1889)
  • Isotes alcyone (Baly, 1889)
  • Isotes antonia (Bechyné, 1956)
  • Isotes atriventris (Jacoby, 1880)
  • Isotes bertonii (Bowditch, 1912)
  • Isotes bicincta (Bowdtich, 1912)
  • Isotes blattoides (Jacoby, 1892)
  • Isotes borrei (Baly, 1889)
  • Isotes brasiliensis (Jacoby, 1888)
  • Isotes bruchii
  • Isotes cargona (Bechyné, 1958)
  • Isotes caryocara (Bechyné, 1956)
  • Isotes cinctella (Chevrolat, 1884)
  • Isotes complicata (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes corallina (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes cribrata (Gahan, 1891)
  • Isotes crucigera (Weise, 1916)
  • Isotes delicula (Erichson, 1847)
  • Isotes depressa (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes digna (Gahan, 1891)
  • Isotes dilatata (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes distinguenda (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes donata (Bechyné, 1956)
  • Isotes eruptiva (Bechyné, 1955)
  • Isotes figurata (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes gemmula (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes ignatia (Bechyné, 1956)
  • Isotes imbuta (Erichson, 1847)
  • Isotes interruptofasciata (Baly 1879)
  • Isotes laevicollis (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes lineatopunctata (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes marginella (Jacoby, 1879)
  • Isotes mexicana (Harold, 1875)
  • Isotes multipunctata (Jacoby, 1878)
  • Isotes nitidula (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes obscuromaculata
  • Isotes octosignata (Baly, 1879)
  • Isotes onira (Bechyné & Bechyné, 1961)
  • Isotes opacicollis
  • Isotes pollina (Bechyné & Bechyné, 1962)
  • Isotes puella (Baly, 1886)
  • Isotes quatuordecimpunctata (Jacoby 1892)
  • Isotes rubripennis (Erichson, 1847)
  • Isotes sanguineipennis (Baly, 1891)
  • Isotes saundersi
  • Isotes semiflava (Germar, 1824)
  • Isotes semiopaca (Jacoby, 1892)
  • Isotes septempunctata (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes sexpunctata (Jacoby 1878)
  • Isotes sibylla (Bechyné & Bechyné, 1969)
  • Isotes spilothorax (Harold, 1875)
  • Isotes taeniolata (Gahan, 1891)
  • Isotes ternata (Bechyné & Bechyné, 1961)
  • Isotes tetraspilota (Baly, 1865)
  • Isotes uniformis (Jacoby, 1887)
  • Isotes valentina (Bechyné, 1956)
  • Isotes varipes (Boheman, 1859)
  • Isotes vittula (Bowditch, 1911)
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