#leafbeetles to the rescue
#leafbeetles are so joyful
Duarte-De-Mélo, Chaboo, Cajé, Suênia-Bastos & De Moura Lima. 2025. #Brazil #Chlamisus #leafbeetles on #Malvaceae #AnimalArchitecture #Chrysomelidae #Beetles Fragmenta entomologica 57(2).
I hace these as earrings! #Cassidinae #leafbeetles
Robert Barney has published so many articles on #Pachybrachis #beetles (#Cryptocephalinae #leafbeetles). I pulled many issues of Coleopterists Bulletin to just review some of his structures! Bravo!! (thanks @coleopsoc.bsky.social for providing a forum for chryso research)
Figure 1. Hindwing polymorphism in G. grisescens. (a) A macropterous (left) and brachypterous adult (right). (b) Hindwings of macropterous (top) and brachypterous forms (bottom). (c) Relative hindwing size. The hindwing to forewing area ratio was calculated (n = 25).
#LiteratureNotice Chiba et al. Divergence in cuticular wax profiles generates partial behavioural isolation between leaf beetle populations with different dispersal traits doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #Beetle #Beetles #LeafBeetles #Morphometrics
Chaboo, Matsumura & Schmitt (Eds). 2025. Special issue of articles on #Chrysomelidae #leafbeetles #beetles published today! zookeys.pensoft.net/issues
a-b. The general view of the Malpighian tubules in Cassida palaestina. The proximal tubules connect to the junction of the midgut and hindgut (SEM). c. The distal Malpighian tubules (→) attached to the colon (SEM). d. Circles shown that the distal Malpighian tubules under the sheath surrounding the colon (SEM). Colon epithelium cell (E). e–f. The longitudinal section of the distal Malpighian tubules (Circles) under the sheath surrounding the colon. Nucleus (N), (Light Microscope, HE)
#LiteratureNotice Sirri & Mutlu. Characteristic of the excretory system in Cassida palaestina Reiche, 1858 ( #Coleoptera: #Chrysomelidae: #Cassidinae) doi.org/10.1007/s007... #Beetle #Beetles #LeafBeetles #Morphology
Research sites and behavior of Hockingia curiosa. 1 Vachellia drepanolobium at Site 2 (15 km north of Saikeri, Kajiado Province, Kenya). 2 Large, mature domatium of V. drepanolobium at Site 2. 3 Vachellia drepanolobium eaten by goats at Site 2. 4 Author T.K. examining domatia at Site 2. 5 Hockingia curiosa and mature workers of Crematogaster mimosae. 6 Hockingia curiosa tapping mouthparts of immature worker of C. mimosae with its foreleg. 7 Hockingia curiosa receiving food from immature worker C. mimosae in trophallaxis.
#LiteratureNotice Komatsu et al. Ant-kissing #LeafBeetles: Behavior and adult morphology of the myrmecophilous leaf beetle Hockingia curiosa ( #Coleoptera: #Chrysomelidae: Camptosomata) doi.org/10.1111/ens.... #Beetle #Beetles #Mimicry
#leafbeetles gone wild in the city #China entomologytoday.org/2025/08/21/u...
#leafbeetles #Chrysomelidae a group so big that it even has aquatic & subaquatic lineages
still editing bookshelf, but keeping sexy covers!
Macedo, Flinte, Abejanella & Chaboo. 2015. Three new reports of #subsocial #tortoisebeetles from South America (#Chrysomelidae: #Cassidinae). #leafbeetles #parentalcare
bizarre #beetles #leafbeetles #Chrysomelidae
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nice paper on important character in #Chrysomelidae Tree of Life: bifid setae in #Criocerinae #Cassidinae #Donaciinae #Bruchidae. Great dedication to Stork & Schmitt by Dagmar & Gorb. 2025. ...branching adhesive setae in two #leafbeetles Zoomorphology 144:48.
#LiteratureNotice Serna-Muñoz & Alzate-Cano. Two New Guests: On the Presence of Two Newly Established Species of Chrysomela Linnaeus ( #Coleoptera: #Chrysomelidae) in South America doi.org/10.1007/s137... #Beetle #Beetles #LeafBeetles #NewSpecies
Afrotropicaltica fulvipennis (Jacoby) comb. nov. A lectotype of Blepharida favareli Achard, male, Ogooué, Sam-Kita, habitus B holotype of Cladocera fulvipennis Jacoby, male, habitus C distribution D head, pronotum, and base of elytra, male, Cameroun, Victoria E head, Republique du Congo, P.N. d’Odzala, Mbandza F median lobe of the aedeagus, from left to right in ventral, dorsal, and lateral view, Republique du Congo, P.N. d’Odzala, Mbandza G spermatheca, paralectotype of Blepharida favareli Achard, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eala H metafemoral extensor tendon, Camerun, Victoria. Abbreviations: am: apical margin; bav: basal angle of the ventral lobe; dba: dorsal-basal angle; dl: dorsal lobe; dmv: dorsal margin of the ventral lobe; ea: extended arm; vba: ventral-basal angle; vl: ventral lobe. Scale bars: 3 mm (A, B); 1 mm (D, E, F, G); 500 μm (H).
#LiteratureNotice D'Alessandro & Biondi. A new flea beetle genus from sub-Saharan Africa, and taxonomic remarks on the Blepharida genera group in the Afrotropical region ( #Chrysomelidae, #Galerucinae, Alticini) doi.org/10.3897/zook... #Beetle #Beetles #NewGenus #NewSpecies #LeafBeetles
Characters used in descriptions. a) Anterior view of the frontoclypeus, arrows pointing to bifurcated points, Lycoidispa tenebrae, new species, b) Lateral view of frontoclypeus showing position, L. tenebrae, new species, c) Inflated metaventrite, most extreme example from L. gravida, new species. Scale bar (for c) = 2 mm.
#LiteratureNotice Ramsey. A #New#Genus, Lycoidispa Ramsey, Split from Pentispa Chapuis ( #Coleoptera: #Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Chalepini), with Descriptions of Five #NewSpecies doi.org/10.1649/0010... #TheColeopteristsBulletin #Beetle #Beetles #LeafBeetles
#Catalogue #biodiversity #leafbeetles #Chrysomelidae #Malaysia #Borneo @pensoft.net
#leafbeetles on cottonwood
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AKSHAJA SURESH, et al. 2025. Review of Indian #Oulema #Chrysomelidae #Criocerinae #leafbeetles J. Insect Biodiversity 64(1): 019–030.
Makoto Kato & Yume Imada, 2025. Diversity and #hostplant utilization of leaf-mining #beetles of Chrysomeloidea (Coleoptera) in #Japan. #leafbeetles
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