Jolibrotica
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| Jolibrotica | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Luperini |
| Subtribe: | Luperina |
| Genus: | Jolibrotica Lee & Bezděk, 2015 |
Jolibrotica is a genus of Asian leaf beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae and tribe Luperini (subtribe Luperina, section Phyllobroticites). The genus was erected by Chi-Feng Lee and Jan Bezděk in 2015, with species that were previously considered very similar to Phyllobrotica. They named Jolibrotica after the French entomologist Pierre Jolivet (1922-2020), who was a specialist in Chrysomelids.[1] To date (2025), species have only been found in Taiwan.[2]