Timarcha
{{short description|Genus of beetles}}
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| image = Chrysomelidae - Timarcha tenebricosa.JPG
| image_caption = Timarcha tenebricosa
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Timarcha
| parent_authority = Motschulsky, 1860
| authority = Samouelle, 1819{{cite journal|last1=Vela|first1=J.M.|last2=Alonso-Zarazaga|first2=M.Á.|last3=Daccordi|first3=M.|year=2020|title=The species of Timarcha Samouelle, 1819 described by Linnaeus (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)|journal=ZooKeys|issue=986|pages=55–80|doi=10.3897/zookeys.986.57158|pmid=33223880|pmc=7661484|doi-access=free}}
| type_species = Chrysomela tenebricosa
| type_species_authority = Fabricius, 1775
}}
File:Tatzenkäfer Timarcha goettingensis 6512.jpg
Timarcha is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, with more than 100 described species in three subgenera. The most widely known species is T. tenebricosa, the bloody-nosed beetle. All species are black, wingless organisms. Timarcha are herbivorous species, living mostly on plants belonging to Rubiaceae and Plumbaginaceae, although a few can feed on Brassicaceae and Rosaceae. Timarcha is the only member of the tribe Timarchini.
Species
These 20 species belong to the genus Timarcha:
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- Timarcha affinis Laboissière, 1937 g
- Timarcha cerdo Stål, 1863 i c g
- Timarcha cornuta Bechyné, 1944 g
- Timarcha cyanescens Fairmaire, 1862 g
- Timarcha coarcticollis Fairmaire, 1873 g
- Timarcha daillei Laboissière, 1939 g
- Timarcha goettingensis (Linnaeus, 1758) g
- Timarcha insparsa
- Timarcha interstitialis Fairmaire, 1862 g
- Timarcha intricata Haldeman, 1853 i c g b
- Timarcha italica Herrich-Schäffer, 1838 g
- Timarcha lugens
- Timarcha marginicollis
- Timarcha maritima Perris, 1855 g
- Timarcha metallica (Laicharting, 1781) g
- Timarcha monticola Dufour, 1851 g
- Timarcha nicaeensis A.Villa & G.B.Villa, 1835 g
- Timarcha obsoleta Laboissière, 1937 g
- Timarcha recticollis Fairmaire, 1862 g
- Timarcha sardea (Villa, 1835) g
- Timarcha sinuatocollis Fairmaire, 1862 g
- Timarcha strangulata Fairmaire, 1862 g
- Timarcha temperei Jeanne, 1965 g
- Timarcha tenebricosa (Fabricius, 1775) g (Bloody-nosed beetle)
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Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net
References
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{{Cite web| title=Timarcha Report
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=719644
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| access-date=2018-05-04
}}
{{Cite web| title=Browse Timarcha
| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/31dde3ff269e5694c7d9cc974458c690
| website=Catalogue of Life
| access-date=2018-05-04
}}
{{Cite web| title=Timarcha
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/8349466
| website=GBIF
| access-date=2018-05-04
}}
{{Cite web| title=Timarcha Genus Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/161279
| website=BugGuide.net
| access-date=2018-05-04
}}
}}
External links
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- {{wikispecies-inline|Timarcha}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060212003951/http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/European%20Chrysomelidae/timarcha.htm List of 111 species]
- {{cite journal |vauthors=Gómez-Zurita J, Juan C, Petitpierre E |title=The evolutionary history of the genus Timarcha (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) inferred from mitochondrial COII gene and partial 16S rDNA sequences |journal=Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=304–17 |date=February 2000 |pmid=10679162 |doi=10.1006/mpev.1999.0712 }}
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Category:Taxa named by George Samouelle
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