Clytrini

{{short description|Tribe of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Clytra laeviuscula.jpg

| image_caption = Clytra laeviuscula

| taxon = Clytrini

| authority = Lacordaire, 1848

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

Many, see text

| synonyms =

Clytrinae

}}

The Clytrini are a tribe within the leaf beetle subfamily Cryptocephalinae, though historically they were often treated as a distinct subfamily, Clytrinae. As the other Cryptocephalinae, they belong to the group of case-bearing leaf beetles known as Camptosomata.

Clytrini are known for their myrmecophily.{{cite journal |date=December 17, 2015 |title=Leaf beetles are ant-nest beetles: the curious life of the juvenile stages of case-bearers (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae) |journal=ZooKeys |publisher=Pensoft Publishers |issue=547 |pages=133–164 |pmc=4714338 |last1=Agrain |first1=F. A. |last2=Buffington |first2=M. L. |last3=Chaboo |first3=C. S. |last4=Chamorro |first4=M. L. |last5=Schöller |first5=M. |doi=10.3897/zookeys.547.6098 |pmid=26798319 |doi-access=free }}

Selected genera and species

File:Tituboea illigeri (Lacordaire, 1848) (3275058214).jpg]]

References

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Category:Taxa named by Jean Théodore Lacordaire

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