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Metallactus

{{short description|Genus of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Metallactus

| image = Metallactus argentinensis (10.3897-zookeys.677.10778) Figure 25.jpg

| image_caption = Metallactus nigroplagiatus

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| authority = Suffrian, 1866

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Metallactus is a genus of case-bearing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are over 70 described species distributed across South America.

Species {{small|[selected few predominant]}}

References

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{{Cite web| title=Metallactus Suffrian, 1866 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/3260051|website=GBIF|access-date=7 January 2025|language=en}}

{{Cite journal|last1=Gómez-Zurita|first1=J.|last2=Cardoso|first2=A.|date=2021|title=Molecular systematics, higher-rank classification and Gondwanan origins of Cryptocephalinae leaf beetles.|journal=Zoologica Scripta|volume=50|issue=5|pages=592–615|doi=10.1111/zsc.12501|pmid=|s2cid=|issn=|doi-access=free|language=en|hdl=10261/250516|hdl-access=free}}

{{Cite journal|last1=Sassi|first1=D.|date=2009|title=Revision of the Metallactus hamifer species-group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae).|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4657|issue=2|pages=201–245|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4657.2.1|pmid=|s2cid=|issn=|doi-access=free|language=en}}

{{Cite journal|last1=Sassi|first1=D.|date=2020|title=Revision of the Metallactus generosus species-group with a preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of the endophallus morphology in distinguishing critical sibling species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae).|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4877|issue=1|pages=148–162|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4877.1.6|pmid=|s2cid=|issn=|doi-access=free|language=en}}

{{Cite journal|last1=Sassi|first1=D.|date=2020|title=Four peculiar new Metallactus species from Argentina (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae).|journal=Fragmenta Entomologica|volume=52|issue=2|pages=355–364.|doi=10.13133/2284-4880/465|pmid=|s2cid=|issn=|doi-access=free|language=en}}

{{Cite journal|last1=Sassi|first1=D.|date=2022|title=Revision of the Metallactus taeniatellus species group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae).|journal=Zootaxa|volume=5125|issue=3|pages=251–282|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5125.3.1|pmid=|s2cid=|issn=|doi-access=free|language=en}}

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite book| author =Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.).|date = 2002| title = American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea.| publisher =CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida| isbn=978-0-8493-0954-0}}.
  • {{Cite book| author = Arnett, Ross H. Jr.| date = 2000| title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico.| publisher =CRC Press| isbn = 978-0-8493-0212-1}}
  • Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.

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Category:Cryptocephalinae

Category:Chrysomelidae genera

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