Trachymela

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: Chrysomelinae
Tribus: Chrysomelini
Subtribus: Gonioctenina
Genus: Trachymela
Species (127): T. abjecta – T. acclivis – T. adelaidae – T. alpina – T. alta – T. alticola – T. arcula – T. armata – T. asperula – T. baldiensis – T. bicolora – T. biondii – T. blanda – T. borealis – T. brevissima – T. caliginosa – T. cancellata – T. carpentariae – T. castanea – T. catenata – T. comma – T. convexicollis – T. coriaria – T. corrugata – T. costipennis – T. creberrima – T. crebra – T. cristata – T. cygnicola – T. declivis – T. diffusa – T. echo – T. exarata – T. explanata – T. exsul – T. extranea – T. ferrugata – T. foveata – T. fumata – T. funerea – T. fusconotata – T. granaria – T. graphica – T. grossa – T. hartmeyeri – T. ignorata – T. impressa – T. inaequalis – T. incurva – T. infuscata – T. ingloria – T. inops – T. inornata – T. insolens – T. interioris – T. invalida – T. karattae – T. laeviventris – T. latipes – T. leai – T. lima – T. litigiosa – T. lugubris – T. lyncea – T. maculiceps – T. malevola – T. mediocris – T. melanospila – T. mixta – T. mjoebergi – T. montuosa – T. morosa – T. multiseriata – T. nervosa – T. nitmiluka – T. nodosa – T. obscurella – T. orbicularis – T. ordinaria – T. papuligera – T. papulosa – T. pardalis – T. perparvula – T. piceola – T. prodroma – T. propria – T. punctata – T. punctipennis – T. pustulifera – T. pustulosa – T. raucipennis – T. regularis – T. rosea – T. ruficollis – T. rufonigra – T. rugosa – T. rugulosior – T. rustica – T. scabra – T. scalaris – T. semiglobosa – T. seriata – T. serpiginosa – T. simplex – T. simulans – T. sjoestedti – T. sloanei – T. solitaria – T. sordida – T. spilota – T. squiresensis – T. sternalis – T. stigma – T. strigosa – T. sublimbata – T. sublineata – T. sylvicola – T. tincticollis – T. verrucicollis – T. verrucipennis – T. verrucosa – T. versuta – T. vibex – T. victoriae – T. vomica – T. vulpina – T. whittonensis
Name

Trachymela Weise, 1908: 7

Type species: Paropsis sloanei Blackburn, 1897, by subsequent designation by Kelly & Reid (1999: 265) [CHECK: a type species may have previously been designated in the Zoological Record]
Synonyms

Chondromela Weise, 1915: 435 [syn. conf.: Reid, 2006: 101]
Type species: Chondromela mjoebergi Weise, 1915, by original designation.

References
Primary references

Kelly, P.G. & Reid, C.A.M. 1999. Designation of type species for the genera of Australian paropsine beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 57(2): 263–266. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.1999.57.15 Open access. Reference page.
Weise, J. 1908. Chrysomelidae und Coccinelidae. Fauna Südwest-Australiens 2(1): 1–13. BHL
Weise, J. 1915. Übersicht der Chrysomelini. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1915: 434–436. BHL.

Additional references

Daccordi, M. 1994. Notes for the phylogenetic study of Chrysomelinae, with descriptions of new taxa and a list of all the known genera. pp. 60–84 in Furth, D. (ed.) Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Chrysomelidae, Bejing, 1992. Leiden: Backhuys.
Reid, C.A.M. 2006. A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa 1292: 1–119. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1292.1.1 Open access. PDF (partA). PDF (partB). [Erratum: 1306: 68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1306.1.6 Paywall.] Reference page.

Trachymela is a genus of beetles, commonly called leaf beetles and in the subfamily Chrysomelinae. These beetles are usually brown or black and have elytra with verrucae (bumps) and lacking striae. Trachymela can be found in all states of Australia[1] There are over 120 species.[2]

Trachymela is native to Australia and New Guinea and introduced elsewhere. Host-plants: Myrtaceae (Angophora, Eucalyptus, Leptospermum).[3]
Trachymela rugosa

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