Cleorina

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Suborder:Polyphaga
Cleorina
Cleorina janthina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Typophorini
Genus: Cleorina
Lefèvre, 1885[1]
Type species
Cleorina aulica
(= Nodostoma aeneomicans Baly, 1867)
Synonyms

Basilepta Weise, 1923
(nec Baly, 1860)
[2]

Cleorina is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in South, East and Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Australia.

Cleorina modiglianii, a species found in Sumatra, was considered as a potential biological control agent for the giant bramble (Rubus alceifolius), an invasive plant species in La Réunion, but was rejected after testing its host specificity.[3]

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