Luperus

TaxID: 281587

Basic Information

Luperus

Leaf Beetle

Luperus is a genus of mostly Palaearctic, skeletonizing leaf beetles, belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Galerucinae and typical of the tribe Luperini.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Chrysomelidae

Luperus

nan

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Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Pedro Antonio Lázaro Molinero@BY-NC
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(c) Francisco Gil@BY-NC
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(c) Ferran Turmo Gort@BY-NC-SA
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(c) jeclerencia@BY-NC
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(c) Marcello Consolo@BY-NC-SA

Morphological Features

Head, including eyes, as wide as pronotum, shiny, smooth; labrum dark brown, lighter at apex; mandible tips and palpi reddish brown; facial carina broad, slightly convex; supra-antennal sulcus distinct, smooth. Pronotum of male transverse, as wide at apex as at base, base weakly rounded, lateral margins weakly rounded. Body straw-yellow, reddish on vertex and paler on elytra; head narrower than pronotum, straw-yellow in lower part, reddish from supra-antennal sulcus; pronotum transverse, strongly narrowed posteriorly; elytra wider at base than pronotum, widening to three-quarters of length.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Scholarly article
Citation:

Victor Laboissière. 1919. Description d'un Luperus nouveau de Sicile [Col. Galerucidae]. Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (211 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
UKAN5279-24 BOLD:AAP6941 COI-5P 658 United Kingdom 2023-05-29 51.4366, -0.2335
UKAN3835-24 BOLD:AAP6941 COI-5P 658 United Kingdom 2023-06-14 53.6383, -0.8975000000000001
TDAOE8906-25 BOLD:ACJ7261 COI-5P 658 Austria 2025-05-24 48.763965999999996, 16.56418
TDAOE5341-24 BOLD:ACJ8669 COI-5P 658 Austria 2023-05-07 48.298, 16.312
TDAOE3850-24 BOLD:ACJ8669 COI-5P 653 Austria 2023-05-19 48.251, 16.463
TDAOE3793-24 BOLD:ACJ8669 COI-5P 658 Austria 2023-05-19 48.251, 16.463
TDAOE3223-23 BOLD:ACJ7261 COI-5P 360 Austria 2022-06-15 48.2117, 16.2617
TDAOE3169-23 BOLD:AAP6941 COI-5P 658 Austria 2022-06-15 48.2117, 16.2617
TDAOE2237-23 BOLD:ACJ8669 COI-5P 658 Austria 2021-06-11 48.2662, 16.3717
TDAOE2235-23 BOLD:ACJ8669 COI-5P 654 Austria 2021-06-11 48.2662, 16.3717
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