Lema

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Criocerinae
Tribus: Lemiini
Genus: Lema
Subgenera (7): L. (Hapsidolemoides) – L. (Lema) – L. (Microlema) – L. (Pachylema) – L. (Parhapsidolema) – L. (Petauristes) – L. (Quasilema)
Overview of species

L. adamsii – L. amnesia – L. assamensis – L. atkinsoni – L. baliana – L. balyana – L. basicostata – L. becquarti – L. bifoveipennis – L. bimaculaticeps – L. binomis – L. birmanica – L. bohemani – L. bosqi – L. castanea – L. cephalotes – L. cirsicola – L. commelinarum – L. concinnipennis – L. constrictofasciata – L. coreensis – L. coromandeliana – L. coronata – L. crioceroides – L. cyanea – L. cyanella – L. decempunctata – L. delicatula – L. demongei – L. devota – L. diabroticoides – L. dilecta – L. diversa – L. diversipes – L. diversitarsis – L. djoui – L. dolichosoma – L. duplicata – L. esakii – L. fastidiosa – L. feae – L. felix – L. femorata – L. formosana – L. forticornis – L. fortunei – L. fulvofrontalis – L. fuscitarsis – L. gahani – L. germari – L. homonima – L. honorata – L. ichilana – L. impotens – L. inconspicua – L. indicola – L. infranigra – L. jansoni – L. jurkiewiczi – L. kimotoi – L. koshunensis – L. lacertosa – L. lacordairii – L. lauta – L. maheensis – L. malabarica – L. marginalis – L. michioi – L. mimica – L. minutissima – L. monoleptoides – L. mouhoti – L. multimaculata – L. nepalica – L. nigricollis – L. nigrofrontalis – L. nigrosignata – L. nitobei – L. obscura – L. obscuritarsis – L. occipitalis – L. omanica – L. paagai – L. palpalis – L. paradoxa – L. pauperata – L. perplexa – L. pectoralis – L. persicariae – L. piceocastanea – L. praeclarior – L. psyche – L. pygmaea – L. quadrimaculata – L. quadripunctata – L. riparia – L. rufobrunnea – L. rufofrontalis – L. rufolineata – L. rufotestaea – L. sapporensis – L. scutellaris – L. sikanga – L. singularis – L. solani – L. solanophaga – L. spoliata – L. subtuberculata – L. sumbawensis – L. szechuana – L. takara – L. tenebrosipennis – L. terminata – L. tibialis – L. trilineata – L. trivittata – L. vanharteni – L. victoris – L. viridipennis – L. vivax – L. westwoodi – L. xanthopus
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Name

Lema Fabricius, 1798: 90 [conserved name]

Gender: feminine.

Type species: Lema cyanea Fabricius, 1798, by designation under the plenary powers (ICZN, 1970).

Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 908.
References
Primary references

Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Supplementum. Proft et Storch, Hafniae, pp. 1–582. (BHL) + Index (BHL). Reference page.
ICZN 1970. Opinion 908 Crioceris Müller, 1764 and Lema Fabricius, 1798 (Insecta. Coleoptera): proposed designation of type-species under the plenary powers. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 27(1): 12–13. BHL. Reference page.

Additional references

Bezděk, J. & Moseyko, A.G. 2021. Identity of the enigmatic Crioceris jurkiewiczi Brancsik (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Criocerinae). Zootaxa 4991(1): 192–194. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4991.1.12 Paywall. ResearchGate Open access. Reference page.
Bezděk, J. & Schmitt, M. 2017. Subfamily Criocerinae in Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera vol. 6, Corrigenda et Addenda. Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 113(2): 113–135. ResearchGate Open access. Reference page.
Lee, C.-F. & Matsumura, Y. 2013. On newly and recently recorded species of the genus Lema Fabricius (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Criocerinae) from Taiwan. ZooKeys 262: 17–38. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.262.4152 Open access. Reference page.
Löbl, I. & Smetana, A.. 2013. Errata to Volumes 1 to 7. Pp. 26–50. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 8. Curculionoidea II. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. 700 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-25206-6. Google Books.
Matsumura, Y., Sasaki, S., Imasaka, S., Sano, M. & Ôhara, M. 2011. Revision of the Lema (Lema) concinnipennis Baly, 1865 species group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Criocerinae) in Japan. Journal of Natural History 45(25–26): 1533–1561. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2011.559594 Open access. Reference page.
Medvedev, L.N. 2008. New and poorly known Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from the islands of Bali and Lombok (Indonesia). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 1: 431–434. PDF. Reference page.
Monrós, F. 1947. Notas sôbre Crioceridae Argentinos (Col., Chrysomeloidea). Arthropoda (Buenos Aires), 1(1): 78–88.
Monrós, F. 1947. Descripciones y comentarios relativos a "Chrysomeloidea" (Coleoptera). Acta Zoológica Lilloana, 4: 155–174, 1 plate.
Monrós, F. 1948. Notas sôbre "Eupoda" Argentinos (Col. Chrysomelidae). Acta Zoológica Lilloana, 5: 203–220.
Monrós, F. 1951. Notas sôbre Criocerinae (Col. Chrysomelidae). Acta Zoológica Lilloana, 11: 467–482.
Schmitt, M. 2010. Subfamily Criocerinae Latreille, 1804. Pp. 359–368. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. 924 pp. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. Google Books.
von Groll, E. 2021. Solving an old dilemma: are the two sympatric species Lema apicalis and L. reticulosa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Criocerinae) morphotypes of a single species? Zootaxa 5048(3): 334–346. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5048.3.2 Paywall. Reference page.
Warchałowski, A. 2011. An introductory review of Lema Fabr. species from Eastern and Southeastern Asia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Criocerinae). Genus: 22(1): 29–93. PDF.
White, R.E. 1993. A revision of the subfamily Criocerinae (Chrysomelidae) of North America north of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin (1805): 158 pp. PDF.

Lema is a genus of beetles in the family Chrysomelidae.[1]
Selected species

At least 13 named species are in the genus Lema, organised into two subgenera:[2]

Subgenus Lema Curtis, 1830

Lema puncticollis Curtis, 1830

Subgenus Quasilema Monrós, 1951

Lema balteata LeConte, 1884
Lema circumvittata Clark in Bates and Clark, 1866
Lema confusa Chevrolat
Lema conjuncta Lacordaire, 1845
Lema daturaphila Kogan and Goeden, 1970
Lema maderensis R. White, 1993
Lema melanofrons R. White, 1993
Lema nigrovittata Sahlberg
Lema opulenta Harold in Gemminger & Harold, 1874
Lema pubipes Clark in Bates and Clark, 1866
Lema solani Fabricius, 1798
Lema trivittata Weber, 1909

Incertae sedis

Lema cyanella Linnaeus, 1758

References

Arnett Jr., R. H.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, Volume 2. CRC Press. p. 641.
"Lema". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2017-07-28.