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Batophila
Batophila is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, containing some 30 species in the Palaearctic and Oriental regions.
Microctenochira
Microctenochira is a genus of tortoise beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 110 described species in the genus Microctenochira.
Monoxia
Monoxia is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 18 described species in Monoxia. They are found in North America and the Neotropics.
Sphaeroderma
Sphaeroderma is a large genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, with some 250 species from the Old World.
Macroplea
Macroplea is a genus of beetle of the subfamily Donaciinae in the family of leaf beetles.
Ophraella
Ophraella is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.
Miraces
Miraces is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are six described species in Miraces. They are found in North America and the Neotropics.
Oreina
Oreina is a genus of broad-shouldered leaf beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Chrysomelinae.
Coptocephala
Coptocephala is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae. The genus was first described by Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat in 1836.
Disonycha
Disonycha is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, containing some 170 species in the Nearctic and Neotropics. thumb|Disonycha xanthomelas thumb|Disonycha xanthomelas
Callispa
Callispa is a genus of tortoise beetles (insects in the subfamily Cassidinae).
Derospidea
Derospidea is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least two described species in Derospidea. They are found in North America and Mexico.
Mesomphalia
thumb| Mesomphalia sexmaculata
Clytra
Clytra is a genus of short-horned leaf beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Cryptocephalinae.
Megascelis
Megascelis is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from both North and South America. There are around 140 described species in Megascelis.
Prasocuris
thumb|Prasocuris phellandrii (Linnaeus 1758)
Scelolyperus
Scelolyperus is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 20 described species in Scelolyperus. They are found in North America, Mexico, and the Palaearctic.
Pseudoluperus
Pseudoluperus is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Pseudoluperus longulus, which is found in North America.
Chaeridiona
Chaeridiona is a genus of Asian leaf beetles belonging to the tribe Oncocephalini.
Lasiochila
Lasiochila is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.
Phyllecthris
thumb | right | alt=Phyllecthris dorsalis | Phyllecthris dorsalis Phyllecthris is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least three described species in Phyllecthris. They are found in North America.
Metrioidea
Metrioidea is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Fiji and New Caledonia. Additional species attributed to the genus are known from the Nearctic, Neotropical and Indomalayan realms, but these may actually belong to other genera. Metrioidea species from the New World are very similar to those in the genera Lilophaea, Luperodes and Monolepta.
Yingaresca
Yingaresca is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.
Cerotoma
Cerotoma is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about seven described species in Cerotoma. They are found in North America and the Neotropics.
Luperus
Luperus is a genus of mostly Palaearctic, skeletonizing leaf beetles, belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Galerucinae and typical of the tribe Luperini.
Paranapiacaba
genus of leaf beetles
Anisodera
Anisodera is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.
Pyrrhalta
Pyrrhalta is a genus of beetles in the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae. Species are distributed throughout much of the world, including much of the Northern Hemisphere and the Australian region.
Pistosia
Pistosia is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.
Eusattodera
Eusattodera is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about six described species in Eusattodera. They are found in North America.
Notosacantha
Notosacantha is a genus of cassidine leaf-beetle with nearly 300 species across the Old World and typical of the tribe Notosacanthini. Within Cassidinae, this genus is among the most speciose. They can be very host specific on their host plants. The biology of most species, even the host plants are unknown, but a detailed biology is available for Notosacantha dorsalis. Many species have narrow distributions, especially those from islands in Southeast Asia. Nearly 18 species occur in India and many are difficult to identify from external morphology.
Xanthogaleruca
Xanthogaleruca is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae. These elm leaf beetles are pests that feed on ornamental plants until they are stripped of their leaves entirely.
Pachnephorus
Pachnephorus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Androlyperus
Androlyperus is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about five described species in Androlyperus. They are found in North America and Mexico.
Oncocephala
Oncocephala is a genus of Asian and African leaf beetles, typical of the tribe Oncocephalini in the subfamily Cassidinae; authorship is often assigned to Louis Agassiz, and is maintained by the ICZN, but should be attributed to Guérin-Méneville, 1844.
Callistola
Callistola is a genus of leaf beetles in the tribe Cryptonychini. Species in this genus are found in the Pacific region, with a large number of species known from New Guinea.
Lachnaia
Lachnaia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Cryptocephalinae, tribe Clytrini. Multiple species in this genus are known to be myrmecophiles, such as the larvae of L. italica.
Lilioceris
Lilioceris is a genus of beetles in the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae. The genus was first scientifically described in 1912 by Edmund Reitter. Lilioceris belongs to the subfamily Criocerinae and tribe Criocerini (Latreille, 1807).
Chalepus
Chalepus is a genus of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 90 described species in Chalepus. thumb|Chalepus sanguinicollis
Bruchia
genus of leaf beetles
Lochmaea
Lochmaea is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.
Colasposoma
Colasposoma is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from Africa, Asia and Australia.
Distigmoptera
Distigmoptera is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are 16 described species in the genus Distigmoptera. They are found in North America and the Neotropics.
Cephaloleia
Cephaloleia is a genus of beetle in the subfamily Cassidinae of family Chrysomelidae. It is endemic to the Neotropical realm.
Diamphidia
Phyllobrotica
Phyllobrotica is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles and flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least 18 described species in Phyllobrotica.
Macrocoma
Macrocoma is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains about 100 species, which are found in tropical Africa, around the Mediterranean, on the Canary Islands, in western and central Asia, and in India.
Thlaspida
Thlaspida is a genus of tortoise beetles in the family Chrysomelidae.
Colaspidema
Colaspidema is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Chrysomelinae.
Systena
Systena is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 90 described species, found in the New World, mostly in the Neotropics. thumb|Systena frontalis thumb|Systena hudsonias
Xanthonia
Xanthonia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in North and Central America, and in East, Southeast and South Asia.
Neobrotica
Neobrotica is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.
Coptocycla
Coptocycla is a tortoise beetle genus in the subfamily Cassidinae.
Coraliomela
Coraliomela is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.
Agonita
Agonita is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae. Species have been recorded from Africa and Asia.
Dactylispa
thumb|Dactylispa bipartita, Singapore thumb|Dactylispa xanthospila, China thumb|Dactylispa subquadrata, Japan
Zabrotes
Zabrotes is a genus of pea and bean weevils in the beetle family Chrysomelidae. They feed mostly on seeds in the family Fabaceae. thumb|Zabrotes subfasciatus
Rhabdopterus
Rhabdopterus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. There are about 70 described species in Rhabdopterus from North and South America, eight of which are found north of Mexico. The Nearctic species may not be congeneric with the type species, which is South American.
Scelida
thumb | right | alt=Scelida nigricornis | Scelida nigricornis Scelida is a genus of skeletonizing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are at least four described species in Scelida. They are found in North America and the Neotropics.
Cyrtonota
Cyrtonota is a genus of leaf beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.