Eumolpini

Eumolpini
Brachypnoea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Hope, 1840
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Eumolpini is a tribe of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is the largest tribe in the subfamily, with approximately 170 genera found worldwide. Members of the tribe almost always have a longitudinal median groove on the pygidium, which possibly helps to keep the elytra locked at rest. They also generally have a subglabrous body, as well as appendiculate pretarsal claws.[2][3]

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  2. ^ Gómez-Zurita, Jesús; Jolivet, Pierre; Vogler, Alfried P. (2005). "Molecular systematics of Eumolpinae and the relationships with Spilopyrinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34 (3): 584–600. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.022. PMID 15683931. S2CID 439719.
  3. ^ Jolivet, Pierre; Lawrence, John F.; Verma, Krishna K.; Ślipiński, Adam (2014). "2.7.3 Eumolpinae C. G. Thomson, 1859". In Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G. (eds.). Handbook of Zoology. Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Volume 3: Morphology and Systematics (Phytophaga). Berlin - Boston: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 217–225. doi:10.1515/9783110274462.189. ISBN 978-3-11-027370-0.