Bassareus (beetle)

Bassareus is a genus of case-bearing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about eight described species in Bassareus.[1][2][3][4]

Bassareus mammifer

Bassareus
Bassareus brunnipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Tribe:	Cryptocephalini
Genus:	Bassareus Haldeman, 1849

Species

• Bassareus areolatus (Suffrian, 1852)
• Bassareus brunnipes (Olivier, 1791)
• Bassareus clathratus (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)
• Bassareus croceipennis J. L. LeConte, 1880
• Bassareus detritus (Olivier, 1808)
• Bassareus formosus (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)
• Bassareus lituratus (Fabricius, 1801)
• Bassareus mammifer (Newman, 1840)

References

1. "Bassareus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
2. "Bassareus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
3. "Bassareus Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
4. "North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". Texas Entomology. Retrieved 10 February 2018.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H., Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Gilbert, Arthur J. (2001). "New records, nomenclatural changes, and taxonomic notes for select North American leaf beetles". Insecta Mundi. 15 (1): 1–17.