Clitenella
Genus of leaf beetles
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Clitenella is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are five described species in Clitenella, found in Indomalaya and the Palearctic.[1][2][3][4][5]
| Clitenella | |
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| Clitenella fulminans, Taiwan | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Galerucini |
| Genus: | Clitenella Laboissière, 1927 |
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Species
These five species belong to the genus Clitenella:
- Clitenella fulminans (Faldermann, 1835)
- Clitenella ignitincta (Fairmaire, 1878)
- Clitenella punctata Laboissiere, 1927 (synonym: Clitenella yunnana (Yang & Li, 1997))
- Clitenella purpureovittata (Chen, 1942)
- Clitenella unicolor Samoderzhenkov, 1988 (synonym: Clitenella sukarnoi Mohamedsaid, 2001)
