Morphosphaera

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: Galerucinae
Tribus: Hylaspini
Genus: Morphosphaera
Species: M. albipennis – M. bimaculata – M. caerulea – M. chrysomeloides – M. collaris – M. coomani – M. japonica – M. maculicollis – M. montivaga – M. sumatrana – M. takizawai – ?M. impunctata
Name

Morphosphaera Baly, 1861: 298

Type species: Morphosphaera maculicollis Baly, 1861, by monotypy.

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Morphosphaera chrysomeloides

References
Primary references

Baly, J.S. 1861. Descriptions of new genera and species of Phytophaga. The Journal of Entomology 1: 275–302. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Beenen, R. 2010. Galerucinae Latreille, 1802. Pp. 443–491. 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.
Kimoto, S. 1989. Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. IV. Galerucinae. Esakia 27: 1–241. hdl: 2324/2511 Open access. Reference page.
Lee, C.-F. & Bezděk, J. 2016. Revision of the genus Morphosphaera Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Zootaxa 4179(1): 1–41. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.1 Paywall. Reference page.

Morphosphaera sumatrana, Indonesia

Morphosphaera is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 11 described species in Morphosphaera. They are found in Indomalaya and eastern Asia.[1][2]
Morphosphaera sumatrana, Indonesia
Species

These 11 species belong to the genus Morphosphaera:[3][1]

Morphosphaera albipennis Allard, 1889
Morphosphaera bimaculata Chujo, 1938
Morphosphaera caerulea Jacoby, 1896
Morphosphaera chrysomeloides (Bates, 1866)
Morphosphaera collaris Laboissière, 1930
Morphosphaera coomani Laboissière, 1930
Morphosphaera japonica Hornstedt, 1788 or Baly, 1874
Morphosphaera maculicollis Baly, 1861
Morphosphaera montivaga Maulik, 1936
Morphosphaera sumatrana Jacoby, 1886
Morphosphaera takizawai Lee & Bezdĕk, 2016

References

"Morphosphaera". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
Nie, R-E; Bezděk, J.; Yang, X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13517. PMC 5740445. PMID 29290727.
Lee, Chi-Feng; Bezděk, Jan (2016). "Revision of the genus Morphosphaera Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)". Zootaxa. 4179 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.1.