{"title":"Tortoise beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) of West Bengal, India","authors":"P. Ghosh, P. Das, Devanshu Gupta, Raghunathan C","doi":"10.55126/ijzab.2023.v08.i02.003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Altogether, 52 species of tortoise beetles belonging to 11 genera and 4 tribes (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) are reported from West Bengal, India in the present communication. The genus Cassida Linnaeus includes the maximum number of 21 species followed by Aspidimorpha Hope (11), Basiprionota Chevrolat (5), Laccoptera Boheman (4), Notosacantha Chevrolat (3), Chiridopsis Spaeth (3), Oocassida Weise (1), Epistictina Hincks (1), Glyphocassis Spaeth (1) and Conchyloctenia Spaeth (1) and Craspedonta Chevrolat (1).","PeriodicalId":124652,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Zoology and Applied Biosciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.55126/ijzab.2023.v08.i02.003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Altogether, 52 species of tortoise beetles belonging to 11 genera and 4 tribes (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) are reported from West Bengal, India in the present communication. The genus Cassida Linnaeus includes the maximum number of 21 species followed by Aspidimorpha Hope (11), Basiprionota Chevrolat (5), Laccoptera Boheman (4), Notosacantha Chevrolat (3), Chiridopsis Spaeth (3), Oocassida Weise (1), Epistictina Hincks (1), Glyphocassis Spaeth (1) and Conchyloctenia Spaeth (1) and Craspedonta Chevrolat (1).