Research reports on Clytrinae and other Chrysomelidae


The Clytrinae belong to a group of subfamilies of the Chrysomelidae which encase their eggs with intricate fecal coatings and dwell within mobile cases (like caddisflies) as larvae. They can be told immediately from all other Chrysomelids by their serrate antennae. Most species are suspected of obligate or facultative myrmecophily as larvae. Read more on their natural history in the summary to Moldenke, 1970.

Publications on Clytrinae

Number of species (species richness) found regionally in North American Clytrinae

                              

Representative members of North American fauna


         

          Legend for representative taxa

  1. Ischiopachys bicolor bicolor (Panama to Orinoco and Amazonian Basins)
  2. Smaragdina agilis (southern Mexico)
  3. Anomoea laticlavia laticlavia (eastern half United States; southeastern Canada)
  4. Urodera (Boreurodera) dilaticollis (deserts of northern Mexico and southern United States)
  5. Babia quadriguttata quadriguttata (eastern United States)
  6. Temnodachrys scutellaris (Central America)
  7. Saxinodachrys elongaticeps (Central America)
  8. Saxinis (Boreosaxinis) saucia saucia (montane western United States)
  9. Coleothorpa dominicana dominicana (eastern half United States; southeastern Canada)
10. Themesia lacordairei (Colombia)
11. Coleorozena pilatei pilatei (all northern Mexico and southwestern United States)
12. Euryscopa (E.) mexicana (Mexico)
13. Euryscopa (Coleoneffa) nordisthmensis (Isthmus of Tehuantepec)
14. Proctophana basalis (Central America)
15. Coscinoptera aenipennis (all northern Mexico; south-central and southwest United States)
16. Megalostomis (Pygidiocarina) pyropyga pyropyga (southwestern Mexico through Sonoran Desert)
17. Megalostomis (M.) anachoreta (Panama, Colombia)
18. Megalostomis (Minturnia) splendida regalis (Guatemala to southern Mexico)


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