Chrysolina is a large genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Chrysomelinae. Most species are distributed in Europe, Asia and Africa with a small number of species inhabiting North America (including introduced European ones) and introduced species in Australia.
The species Chrysolina cerealis and C. graminis are protected in the United Kingdom. All species of Chrysolina are phytophagous, feeding on specific food plants, and some of them have been used for biological control of weeds. To control Hypericum perforatum (St John's wort), C. hyperici was successfully naturalized in Australia in the 1930sW. T. Parsons, E. G. Cuthbertson. Noxious Weeds of Australia. 2nd ed. Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2001. . P. 389.Wilfred William Robbins, Alden Springer Crafts. Weed Control: A Textbook and Manual. N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1962. P. 137, 155, 162. and several species, especially C. quadrigemina, were introduced to California in the late 1940s.Huffaker, C. B. and C. E. Kennett (1959). A ten-year study of vegetation change associated with biological control of Klamath weed. Journal of Range Management 12: 69-82.Peter Jay Morin. Community Ecology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. . P. 106-107.Gilbert Waldbauer. What Good are Bugs?: Insects in the Web of Life. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. . P. 158.Richard E. White. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. . P. 296.
Systematic classification of European species Order Coleoptera Suborder Polyphaga Superfamily Chrysomeloidea Latreille, 1802 Family Chrysomelidae Latreille, 1802 Subfamily Chrysomelinae Latreille, 1802 Genus Chrysolina Motschulsky, 1860 Subgenus Allochrysolina Chrysolina fuliginosa (Olivier, 1807) Chrysolina lepida (Olivier 1807) Subgenus Anopachys Chrysolina aurichalcea (Mannerheim, 1825) Chrysolina eurina (Frivaldszky, 1883) Chrysolina relucens (Rosenhauer, 1847) Chrysolina schatzmayri (Muller, 1916) Subgenus Arctolina Chrysolina septentrionalis (Menetries, 1851) Subgenus Bechynia Chrysolina milleri (Weise, 1884) Chrysolina philotesia Daccordi & Ruffo, 1980 Chrysolina platypoda (Bechyné, 1950) Chrysolina substrangulata Bourdonne, 1986 Subgenus Bittotaenia Chrysolina salviae (Germar, 1824) Subgenus Cecchiniola Chrysolina platyscelidina (Jacobson, 1898) Subgenus Centoptera Chrysolina bicolor (Fabricius, 1775) Subgenus Chalcoidea Chrysolina analis (Linnaeus, 1767) Chrysolina carnifex (Fabricius, 1792) Chrysolina carnifex melanaria (Suffrian, 1851) Chrysolina cinctipennis (Harold, 1874) Chrysolina curvilinea (Weise, 1884) Chrysolina hyrcana (Weise, 1884) Chrysolina interstincta (Suffrian, 1851) Chrysolina marginata (Linnaeus, 1758) Chrysolina taygetana Bechyné, 1952 Subgenus Chrysolina Chrysolina bankii (Fabricius, 1775) Chrysolina costalis (Olivier, 1807) Chrysolina fortunata (Wollaston, 1864) Chrysolina obsoleta (Brulle, 1838) Chrysolina rufa (Duftschmid, 1825) Chrysolina staphylaea (Linnaeus, 1758) Chrysolina wollastoni Bechyné, 1957 Subgenus Chrysomorpha Chrysolina cerealis (Linnaeus, 1767) Subgenus Colaphodes Chrysolina haemoptera (Linnaeus, 1758) Subgenus Colaphoptera Chrysolina globosa (Panzer, 1805) Chrysolina pliginskii (Reitter, 1913) Chrysolina purpurascens (Germar, 1822) Subgenus Colaphosoma Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882) Subgenus Craspeda Chrysolina jenisseiensis (Breit, 1920) Chrysolina limbata (Fabricius, 1775) Subgenus Cyrtochrysolina Chrysolina marcasitica (Germar, 1824) Subgenus Erythrochrysa Chrysolina polita (Linnaeus, 1758) Subgenus Euchrysolina Chrysolina graminis (Linnaeus, 1758) Chrysolina virgata (Motschulsky, 1860) Subgenus Heliostola Chrysolina carpathica (Fuss, 1856) Chrysolina lichenis (Richter, 1820) Chrysolina schneideri (Weise, 1882) Subgenus Hypericia Chrysolina brunsvicensis (Gravenhorst, 1807) Chrysolina corcyria (Suffrian, 1851) Chrysolina cuprina (Duftschmid, 1825) Chrysolina didymata (Scriba, 1791) Chrysolina geminata (Paykull, 1799) Chrysolina hyperici (Forster, 1771) Chrysolina quadrigemina (Suffrian, 1851) Subgenus Maenadochrysa Chrysolina affinis (Fabricius, 1787) Chrysolina aveyronenesis Bechyné, 1950 Chrysolina baetica (Suffrian, 1851) Chrysolina femoralis (Olivier, 1790) Subgenus Melasomoptera Chrysolina grossa (Fabricius, 1792) Chrysolina lucida (Olivier, 1807) Chrysolina lutea (Petagna, 1819) Subgenus Mimophaedon Chrysolina pourtoyi Bourdonne, 1996 Subgenus Ovosoma Chrysolina atrovirens (Frivaldszky, 1876) Chrysolina cretica (Olivier, 1807) Chrysolina halysa Bechyné, 1950 Chrysolina orientalis (Olivier, 1807) Chrysolina rhodia Bechyné, 1950 Chrysolina sahlbergi (Menetries, 1832) Chrysolina susterai Bechyné, 1950 Chrysolina turca (Fairmaire, 1865) Chrysolina vernalis (Brulle, 1832) Subgenus Ovostoma Chrysolina globipennis (Suffrian, 1851) Chrysolina olivieri (Bedel, 1892) Subgenus Palaeosticta Chrysolina diluta (Germar, 1824) Subgenus Rhyssoloma Chrysolina fragariae (Wollaston, 1854) Subgenus Sphaerochrysolina Chrysolina umbratilis (Weise, 1887) Subgenus Sphaeromela Chrysolina varians (Schaller, 1783) Subgenus Stichoptera Chrysolina colasi (Cobos, 1952) Chrysolina grancanariensis (Lindberg, 1953) Chrysolina gypsophilae (Kuster, 1845) Chrysolina latecincta (Demaison, 1896) Chrysolina kuesteri (Helliesen, 1912) Chrysolina lucidicollis (Kuster, 1845) Chrysolina mactata (Fairmaire, 1859) Chrysolina rossia (Illiger, 1802) Chrysolina sanguinolenta (Linnaeus, 1758) Chrysolina stachydis (Gene, 1839) Chrysolina variolosa (Petagna, 1819) Subgenus Sulcicollis Chrysolina chalcites (Germar, 1824) Chrysolina oricalcia (Muller O. F., 1776) Chrysolina peregrina (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1839) Chrysolina rufoaenea (Suffrian, 1851) Subgenus Synerga Chrysolina coerulans (Scriba, 1791) Chrysolina herbacea (Duftschmid, 1825) Chrysolina suffriani (Fairmaire, 1859) Chrysolina viridana (Kuster, 1844) Subgenus Taeniochrysea Chrysolina americana (Linnaeus, 1758) Subgenus Taeniosticha Chrysolina reitteri (Weise, 1884) Subgenus Threnosoma Chrysolina cribrosa (Ahrens, 1812) Chrysolina fimbrialis (Kuster, 1845) Chrysolina helopioides (Suffrian, 1851) Chrysolina inflata (Weise, 1916) Chrysolina joliveti Bechyné, 1950 Chrysolina obenbergeri Bechyné, 1950 Chrysolina obscurella (Suffrian, 1851) Chrysolina osellai (Daccordi & Ruffo, 1979) Chrysolina tagana (Suffrian, 1851) Chrysolina timarchoides (Brisout, 1882) Chrysolina weisei (Frivaldszky, 1883) Subgenus Timarchida Chrysolina deubeli (Ganglbauer, 1897)
See also List of Chrysolina species
References
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