Xanthogaleruca

Xanthogaleruca is a species of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.[1] These elm leaf beetles are pests that feed on ornamental plants until they are stripped of their leaves entirely.[2]

Xanthogaleruca
Xanthogaleruca luteola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Galerucini
Genus: Xanthogaleruca
Laboissière, 1934

Species

The genus includes the following species:[3][4]

  • Xanthogaleruca aenescens (Fairmaire, 1878)
  • Xanthogaleruca flavescens (Weise, 1887)
  • Xanthogaleruca luteola (O.F. Müller, 1776)
  • Xanthogaleruca maculicollis (Motschulsky, 1854)
  • Xanthogaleruca nigromarginata (Jacoby, 1885)
  • Xanthogaleruca orientalis (Ogloblin, 1936)
  • Xanthogaleruca seminigra (Jacoby, 1885)
  • Xanthogaleruca subaenea (Ogloblin, 1936)
  • Xanthogaleruca subcoerulescens (Weise, 1884)
  • Xanthogaleruca yuae Lee & Bezděk, 2021

References
  1. Biolib
  2. Chiffelle, Italo; Huerta, Amanda; Jiménez, Rodrigo; Araya, Jaime E. (2011). "Canadian Journal of Forest Research". Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 41 (12): 2259. doi:10.1139/x11-137.
  3. Beenen, R. (2010). "Galerucinae Latreille, 1802". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 443–491. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
  4. Lee, C.-F.; Bezděk, J. (2021). "Revision of the genera Xanthogaleruca Laboissière, 1932 and Pyrrhalta Joannis, 1865 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) of Taiwan, with type designation of Galerucella lineatipes Takei". ZooKeys. 1039: 1–108. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1039.64740.


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