Chlamisini
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The Chlamisini form a tribe
Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.Some examples include the tribes: Canini, Acalypheae, Hominini, Bombini, and Antidesmeae.-See also:* Biological classification* Rank...

 within the leaf beetle
Leaf beetle
Beetles in the family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles. This is a family of over 35,000 species in more than 2,500 genera, one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle families....

 subfamily Cryptocephalinae
Cryptocephalinae
Cryptocephalinae is a subfamily of the leaf beetles , and belong to the group of case-bearing leaf beetles called the Camptosomata.The Chlamisini and Clytrini were formerly considered subfamilies of their own.-External links:*...

, though historically they were often treated as a distinct subfamily, Chlamisinae. 11 genera
Genera
Genera is a commercial operating system and development environment for Lisp machines developed by Symbolics. It is essentially a fork of an earlier operating system originating on the MIT AI Lab's Lisp machines which Symbolics had used in common with LMI and Texas Instruments...

 with altogether about 400 species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 are currently placed here; some four-fifths of the species are found in the Neotropics, but the rest is distributed over all other continents except Antarctica.

Genera
Genera
Genera is a commercial operating system and development environment for Lisp machines developed by Symbolics. It is essentially a fork of an earlier operating system originating on the MIT AI Lab's Lisp machines which Symbolics had used in common with LMI and Texas Instruments...

 and some selected species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 include:
  • Chlamisus Rafinesque, 1815
    • Chlamisus amyemae Reid, 1991
    • Chlamisus arizonensis Linell, 1898
    • Chlamisus aterrimus Lea, 1904
    • Chlamisus flavidus Karren, 1972
    • Chlamisus foveolatus Knoch, 1801
    • Chlamisus huachucae Schaeffer, 1906
    • Chlamisus maculipes Chevrolat, 1835
    • Chlamisus mimosae Karren, 1989
    • Chlamisus minax Lacordaire
    • Chlamisus nigromaculatus Karren, 1972
    • Chlamisus quadrilobatus Schaeffer, 1926
    • Chlamisus texanus Schaeffer, 1906
  • Diplacaspis Jacobson, 1924
    • Diplacaspis prosternalis Schaeffer, 1906
  • Exema
    Exema
    Exema is a genus of leaf beetles in the tribe Chlamisini. They occur worldwide, with 9 species in North America for example.-Selected species:*Exema byersi Karren, 1966*Exema canadensis Pierce, 1940*Exema chiricahuana Pierce, 1941...

  • Fulcidax Voet, 1806
    • Fulcidax bacca Kirby, 1818
    • Fulcidax coelestina Lacordaire
    • Fulcidax monstrosa Fabricius, 1798
  • Melitochlamys Monrós, 1948
  • Neochlamisus
    Neochlamisus
    Leaf beetles of the genus Neochlamisus are sometimes known as the warty leaf beetles. They are members of the case-bearing leaf beetle group, the Camptosomata. Measuring 3-4 millimeters in length as adults, they are cryptic, superficially resembling caterpillar frass...

    – warty leaf beetles (c.17 species)
  • Pseudochlamys Lacordaire, 1848
    • Pseudochlamys megalostomoides Lacordaire, 1849
    • Pseudochlamys semirufescens Karren, 1972
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