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Chrysomela

Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

Taxonomy

Chrysomela was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Chrysomelini.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1798); to Chrysomelinae by Latreille (1802); to Chrysomelidae by Scudder (1900); and to Chrysomelini by Biondi and Daccordi (1998), Bouchard et al. (2011).

Species

C. calami, C. ceresti, C. debilis, C. hilberi, C. lichenis, C. matheroni, C. micropunctata, C. populi, C. punctigera, C. rudeli, C. succini, C. titana, C. vesperalis, Lina populeti, Lina sociata, Lina wetteravica

Synonyms

Lina was named by Latreille (1829). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Chrysomela by Bouchard et al. (2011).

It was assigned to Chrysomelidae by Meunier (1921).
Melasoma was named by Stephens (1831). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Chrysomela by Santiago-Blay (1994).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Chrysomela Linnaeus p. 368
1761	Chrysomela Linnaeus p. 160
1762	Chrysomela Geoffroy p. 255
1763	Chrysomela Scopoli p. 68
1764	Chrysomela Müller p. 7
1766	Chrysomela Schaeffer
1767	Chrysomela Linnaeus p. 586
1768	Chrysomela Strøm p. 319
1771	Chrysomela Forster p. 19
1775	Chrysomela Fabricius p. 94
1776	Chrysomela Müller p. 81
1796	Chrysomela Latreille p. 66
1798	Chrysomela Fabricius p. 85
1802	Chrysomela Latreille p. 223
1829	Lina Latreille
1831	Melasoma Stephens
1900	Chrysomela Scudder p. 109
1921	Lina Meunier p. 10
1998	Chrysomela Biondi and Daccordi
2011	Chrysomela Bouchard et al. p. 519

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
—	Phytophaga
superfamily	Chrysomeloidea
family	Chrysomelidae	()
subfamily	Chrysomelinae
tribe	Chrysomelini
genus	Chrysomela

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Chrysomela Linnaeus 1758

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†Chrysomela calami Heer 1847

†Chrysomela ceresti Theobald 1937

†Chrysomela debilis Oustalet 1874

†Chrysomela hilberi Lomnicki 1894

Chrysomela lichenis Richter 1820

†Chrysomela matheroni Oustalet 1874

†Chrysomela micropunctata Piton 1935

Chrysomela populi Linnaeus 1758

†Chrysomela punctigera Heer 1847

†Chrysomela rudeli Piton 1936

†Chrysomela succini Giebel 1856

†Chrysomela titana Meunier 1921

†Chrysomela vesperalis Scudder 1900

Invalid names: Lina Latreille 1829 [synonym], Melasoma Stephens 1831 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the MP 11 to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 48.07000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 41.03 Ma

Collections (16 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
MP 11	48.07 - 41.03	Germany (Hessen)	Lina titana (120036)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	C. succini (147344)
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	C. vesperalis (106384)
MP 23	33.9 - 27.3	France	C. ceresti (122535)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)	C. matheroni, C. debilis (122487)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	France (Bouches-Du-Rhone)	C. matheroni (122501)
Late/Upper Oligocene	27.3 - 23.04	France (Puy-de-Dome)	C. rudeli (155204 155206)
MP 30	27.3 - 23.04	Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen)	Lina wetteravica (138696)
MP 30	27.3 - 23.04	Germany	Lina populeti, Lina sociata (123945)
Middle Miocene	15.98 - 11.63	Germany	Lina wetteravica (152936)
Sarmatian	12.8 - 11.63	Germany (Baden-Württemberg)	C. punctigera (113689) Lina populeti, C. calami (115304)
Gelasian	2.58 - 1.8	France	Melasoma micropunctata (113994)
Gelasian	2.58 - 1.8	Greenland	C. populi (160109)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Ukraine	C. lichenis, C. hilberi (153476)