Clytra

Life-forms

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: Cryptocephalinae
Tribus: Clytrini
Subtribus: Clytrina
Genus: Clytra
Subgenera: C. (Clytra) – C. (Clytraria) – C. (Ovoclytra)
Overview of species (Palearctic)

C. afghanica – C. aliena – C. arida – C. atraphaxidis – C. binominata – C. bodemeyeri – C. deficiens – C. duodecimmaculata – C. espanoli – C. guerryi – C. hajeki – C. jacobsoni – C. jelineki – C. laeviuscula – C. medvedevi – C. marginicollis – C. nigrocincta – C. novempunctata – C. obesa – C. oblita – C. ovata – C. popovi – C. quadripunctata – C. reductoapicalis – C. rotundata – C. rubrimaculata – C. rufina – C. subfasciata – C. tanae – C. truncatula – C. tsinensis – C. valeriana – C. weisei – C. yunnana
Name

Clytra Laicharting, 1781: 165

Type species: Chrysomela quadripunctata Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms

Melolontha Geoffroy, 1762: 195 [suppressed by ICZN, Opinion 1754]
Clythra Fabricius, 1798: 5
Type species: Chrysomela quadripunctata Linnaeus, 1758
Clythraria Rafinesque, 1815: 116 [unjustified emendation]
Hirtoclytra L. N. Medvedev, 1961: 640
Type species: Clytra puberula Weise, 1898

Clytra quadripunctata

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.
Geoffroy, E.L. 1762. Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique. Tome premier. Durand, Paris. xxviii + 523 pp., 10 pls. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.14710. BHL. Reference page.
ICZN 1994. Opinion 1754. Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouve aux environs de Paris (Geoffroy, 1762): some generic names conserved (Crustacea, Insecta). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 51(1): 58–70. BHL. Reference page.
Laicharting, J.N. von 1781. Verzeichniß und Beschreibung der Tyroler-Insecten. I. Theil. Käferartige Insecten. I. Band. (German) Online. Reference page.
Medvedev, L.N. 1961. Обзор палеарктических видов рода Clytra Laich. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) [Review of Palearctic species of the genus Clytra Laich. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 40: 636–651. (in Russian) [not seen]
Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Palerme: L'Imprimerie de Jean Barravecchia. 224 pp. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Bezděk, J. & Regalin, R. 2015. Identity of species-group taxa of the Western Palaearctic Clytrini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) described by Maurice Pic and Louis Kocher. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55(supplementum): 1–114. PDF. Reference page.
Kantner, F. & Bezděk, J. 2007. Contribution to the knowledge of Clytrinae from Maharashtra state, India (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Genus: 18(2): 247–270. PDF.
Medvedev, L.N. & Romantsov, P.V. 2015. Leaf beetles of the tribe Clytrini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae) from Borneo. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie), Neue Serie 8: 227–245. PDF. Reference page.
Regalin, R. & Medvedev, L.N. 2010. Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini. Pp. 564–579. 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. Reference page.
Wang, F.-Y. & Zhou, H.-Z. 2011. A synopsis on the Chinese species of Clytra Laicharting, with description of two new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini). Zootaxa 3067: 1–25. Preview. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3067.1.1 Paywall. Reference page.

Clytra is a genus of short-horned leaf beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Cryptocephalinae.
Species

Clytra aliena Weise, 1897
Clytra annamita Lefevre, 1889
Clytra appendicina Lacordaire, 1848
Clytra arida Weise, 1889
Clytra atraphaxidis (Pallas, 1773)
Clytra binominata Monrós, 1953
Clytra bodemeyeri Weise, 1900
†Clytra carbonaria von Heyden & von Heyden, 1865
Clytra cingulata Weise, 1898
Clytra duodecimmaculata (Fabricius, 1775)
Clytra espanoli Daccordi & Petitpierre, 1977
Clytra gracilis (Lacordaire, 1848)
†Clytra greithiana Heer, 1847
Clytra jacobsoni Semenov, 1903
Clytra laeviuscula Ratzeburg, 1837
Clytra nigrocincta Lacordaire, 1848
Clytra novempunctata G.A. Olivier, 1808
Clytra orientalis Lefevre, 1891
Clytra ovata (Lacordaire, 1848)
†Clytra pandorae Heer, 1847
Clytra quadripunctata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Clytra rotundata L. Medvedev, 1961
Clytra rufina (Solsky, 1881)
Clytra subfasciata Lacordaire, 1848
Clytra subviridis Pic, 1932
Clytra unifasciata (Pic, 1941)
Clytra valeriana Ménétries, 1832
Clytra variegata (Lefevre, 1890)

References

BioLib
Fauna Europaea
Chrysomelidae of Europe