Asphaera

{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Asphaera lustrans P1150196a.jpg

| image_caption = Asphaera lustrans

| taxon = Asphaera

| authority = Duponchel & Chevrolat, 1842{{cite encyclopedia|last1=Duponchel|first1=P.A.J|last2=Chevrolat|first2=L.A.A.|year=1842|chapter=Asphaera|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58863736|editor-last=d'Orbigny|editor-first=C.|title=Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle|volume=2|publisher=MM. Renard, Martinet et Cie.|place=Paris|page=227}}

| display_parents = 4

| type_species = Asphaera subfasciata

| type_species_authority = Clark, 1865{{cite journal|last1=Konstantinov|first1=A.S.|last2=Van Roie|first2=M.|last3=Furth|first3=D.|last4=Clark|first4=S.M.|last5=Riley|first5=E.G.|year=2022|title=Flea beetles of the West Indies: Subtribe Oedionychina Chapuis 1875, key to genera, new combinations, synonymy, checklist, and description of new genera and species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362293613|journal=Journal of Insect Biodiversity|volume=33|issue=1|pages=1–56|doi=10.12976/jib/2022.33.1.1|s2cid=251366880 }}

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| synonyms =

  • Ptena Chevrolat, 1836
  • Asphaera Chevrolat, 1836
    (nomen nudum)

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Asphaera is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, containing some 130 species, found in North America, Central America, and the Neotropics.

Selected species

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Gallery

Asphaera paralleloptera.jpg|Asphaera paralleloptera

References

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{{Cite web

| access-date = 2019-07-02

| title = Catalogue of Alticini genera of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): Asphaera Chevrolat, 1843

| date = 2013

| last1 = Nadein | first1 = K. S.

| publisher = Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg

| url = https://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/addpages/Nadein/Asphaera.htm

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