Proseicela

Proseicela
(Proseicela antennalis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Chrysomelidae
Genus:
Proseicela

Chevrolat, 1837
Species

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Proseicela is a genus of leaf beetles.[1]

Taxonomy

The genus Proseicela Chevrolat is assigned to the Chrysomelidae beetle tribe Doryphorini (located in subfamily Chrysomelinae), which it shares with five other genera: Doryphora, Calligrapha, Labidomera, Leptinotarsa, and Zygogramma.[2] This tribe is characterised within the subfamily by round to oval shaped convex bodies which are usually brightly coloured, simple claws which separate at the base, open cavities behind the procoxae, and a variable apicial segment of the maxillary palp.[3] A single species has been sampled in the molecular-based phylogeny of Chrysomelinae.[4]

Species
  • Proseicela antennalis (Kirsch, 1883)
  • Proseicela bicruciata Jacoby
  • Proseicela bivittata
  • Proseicela boliviensista
  • Proseicela egensis Stal, 1869
  • Proseicela ecuadoriensis (Jacoby, 1903)?
  • Proseicela flavipennis
  • Proseicela maculata
  • Proseicela signifera
  • Proseicela spectabilis (Baly)
  • Proseicela vittata (Fabricius)[5]

Maternal guarding (subsociality[6]) of small broods of eggs are larvae is known in P. bivittata[7] and in P. vittata in French Guiana, P. bicruciata in Ecuador, P. spectabilis in Ecuador, and an unidentified species, Proseicela sp. in Ecuador[8]

References
  1. "Proseicela". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  2. "Doryphorini". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  3. Jacques Jr., R. L. (1988). The Potato Beetles: The genus Leptinotarsa in North America. Brill. ISBN 0-916846-40-7.
  4. Chaboo, C.S., F.A. Frieiro-Costa, J. Gómez-Zurita, R. Westerduijn. 2014. Subsociality in leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae, Chrysomelinae). Journal of Natural History 48: 1–44.
  5. https://species-id.net/wiki/Proseicela_vittata
  6. Sociality
  7. Chaboo, C.S., F.A. Frieiro-Costa, J. Gómez-Zurita, R. Westerduijn. 2014. Subsociality in leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae, Chrysomelinae). Journal of Natural History 48: 1–44.
  8. Windsor, D.M., G.J. Dury, F.A. Frieiro-Costa, S. Lanckowsky, and J.M. Pasteels. 2013. Subsocial Neotropical Doryphorini (Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae): new observations on behavior, host plants and systematics. ZooKeys 332: 71–93.


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