Moss-inhabiting flea beetles in the Philippines (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 The Philippine islands are one of the key biodiversity hotspots in the Indo-Pacific area. Knowledge of moss-inhabiting flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae), a diverse and ecologically and morphologically enigmatic group in the Philippines ...
Albert F. Damaška +2 more
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Recent advances in the knowledge of Mexican Alticinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)1 [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2017 The present study updates previously published biodiversity/faunistics of the flea beetles of Mexico published by the author after examination of 6132 specimens from 8 institutional collections.
David G Furth
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Higher-level phylogeny of Chrysomelidae based on expanded sampling of mitogenomes [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Chrysomelidae is one of the most diverse lineages of beetles. The classification and phylogeny of Chrysomelidae have been contentious. In this study, we obtained 16 new mitogenome sequences by using next-generation sequencing. Combined with the published
Heng Zhang, Nan Song, Xinming Yin
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Giant Sex Chromosomes in Omophoita Species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae): Structural and Evolutionary Relationships Revealed by Zoo-FISH and Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) [PDF]
Insects, 2023 The beetles of the subtribe Oedionychina (Chrysomelidae, Alticinae) are the only ones that have the atypical giant and achiasmatic sex chromosomes, which are substantially larger than the autosomes.
Jhon A. D. Vidal +6 more
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MVBeetle: an interpretable multi-view deep learning model for fine-grained classification of Galerucinae and Alticinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceGalerucinae and Alticinae are typical herbivorous pests that seriously harm the growth of crops, trees, fruits, vegetables, and grasses worldwide. Historically, Galerucinae and Alticinae were treated as distinct sister subfamilies within Chrysomelidae ...
Junhui Liu +8 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Phyllobrotica signata (Mannerheim, 1825) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae): characterization and phylogenetic implications [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. ResourcesThe leaf beetles have important economic and ecological significance. Phyllobrotica signata belongs to the subfamily Galerucinae. In this study, the complete mitogenome of P. signata has been obtained by the next-generation sequencing.
Xiao-Xuan Yu +4 more
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The draft genome of the specialist flea beetle Altica viridicyanea (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2021 Background Altica (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is a highly diverse and taxonomically challenging flea beetle genus that has been used to address questions related to host plant specialization, reproductive isolation, and ecological speciation.
Huai-Jun Xue +10 more
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Outline of the history and status of the Japanese Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) [PDF]
ZooKeysThe status of the Japanese fauna of the family Chrysomelidae is reviewed from the viewpoints of systematics and zoogeography based on a new systematic catalog in which 648 species belonging to 172 genera in 17 subfamilies were compiled by Takizawa and ...
Kunio Suzuki, Haruo Takizawa
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European Journal of Entomology, 2010 This paper consists of an up to date annotated catalogue of the Afrotropical genera of Alticinae (Chrysomelidae), with biogeographical notes on the flea beetle fauna occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar.
Paola D'Alessandro, Maurizio Biondi
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European Journal of Entomology, 2007 Afroaltica subaptera, a new genus and species of flea beetles (Chrysomelidae: Alticinae) from the eastern regions of southern Africa (Eastern Transvaal and Kwazulu-Natal), is described. Afroaltica gen. n.
Paola D'Alessandro, Maurizio Biondi
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