| Asphaera | |
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| Asphaera lustrans | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Chrysomeloidea |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Alticini |
| Genus: | Asphaera Duponchel & Chevrolat, 18421 |
| Type species | |
| Asphaera subfasciata | |
| Synonyms2 | |
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Asphaera is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, containing some 130 species, found in North America, Central America, and the Neotropics.3
Selected species
- Asphaera abdominalis (Chevrolat, 1835)
- Asphaera bitaeniata (Jacoby, 1880)
- Asphaera cruciata (Olivier, 1808)
- Asphaera discicollis Jacoby, 1905
- Asphaera fuscofasciata Jacoby, 1905
- Asphaera lustrans (Crotch, 1873) (shiny flea beetle)
- Asphaera magistralis
- Asphaera meticulosa
- Asphaera nobilatata (Fabricius, 1887)
- Asphaera paralleloptera (Bezzi, 1913)4
- Asphaera quadrifasciata
- Asphaera reflexicollis Bechyne
- Asphaera separata (Harold, 1881)
- Asphaera umbraticus (Olivier, 1808)
- Asphaera vernalis Jacoby, 1905
- Asphaera weyrauchi Bechyne
Gallery
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Asphaera paralleloptera
References
References
- Duponchel, P.A.J; Chevrolat, L.A.A. (1842). "Asphaera". In d'Orbigny, C. (ed.). Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 2. Paris: MM. Renard, Martinet et Cie. p. 227.
- Konstantinov, A.S.; Van Roie, M.; Furth, D.; Clark, S.M.; Riley, E.G. (2022). "Flea beetles of the West Indies: Subtribe Oedionychina Chapuis 1875, key to genera, new combinations, synonymy, checklist, and description of new genera and species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)". Journal of Insect Biodiversity. 33 (1): 1–56. doi:10.12976/jib/2022.33.1.1. S2CID 251366880.
- Nadein, K. S. (2013). "Catalogue of Alticini genera of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Asphaera Chevrolat, 1843". Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- "Paralleloptera Bezzi, 1913".