{{Short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Asphaera lustrans P1150196a.jpg | image_caption = ''Asphaera lustrans'' | taxon = Asphaera | authority = Duponchel & Chevrolat, 1842<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last1=Duponchel|first1=P.A.J|last2=Chevrolat|first2=L.A.A.|year=1842|chapter=Asphaera|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58863736|editor-last=d'Orbigny|editor-first=C.|title=Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle|volume=2|publisher=MM. Renard, Martinet et Cie.|place=Paris|page=227}}</ref> | display_parents = 4 | type_species = ''Asphaera subfasciata'' | type_species_authority = Clark, 1865<ref name="Konstantinovetal2022">{{cite journal|last1=Konstantinov|first1=A.S.|last2=Van Roie|first2=M.|last3=Furth|first3=D.|last4=Clark|first4=S.M.|last5=Riley|first5=E.G.|year=2022|title=Flea beetles of the West Indies: Subtribe Oedionychina Chapuis 1875, key to genera, new combinations, synonymy, checklist, and description of new genera and species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362293613|journal=Journal of Insect Biodiversity|volume=33|issue=1|pages=1–56|doi=10.12976/jib/2022.33.1.1|s2cid=251366880 }}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name="Konstantinovetal2022"/> | synonyms = * ''Ptena'' <small>Chevrolat, 1836</small> * ''Asphaera'' <small>Chevrolat, 1836<br />(''nomen nudum'')</small> }}
'''''Asphaera''''' is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, containing some 130 species, found in North America, Central America, and the Neotropics.<ref name=Nadein2013/>
==Selected species== {{Div col|colwidth=29em}} * ''Asphaera abdominalis'' <small>(Chevrolat, 1835)</small> * ''Asphaera bitaeniata'' <small>(Jacoby, 1880)</small> * ''Asphaera cruciata'' <small>(Olivier, 1808)</small> * ''Asphaera discicollis'' <small>Jacoby, 1905</small> * ''Asphaera fuscofasciata'' <small>Jacoby, 1905</small> * ''Asphaera lustrans'' <small>(Crotch, 1873)</small> (shiny flea beetle) * ''Asphaera magistralis'' * ''Asphaera meticulosa'' * ''Asphaera nobilatata'' <small>(Fabricius, 1887)</small> * ''Asphaera paralleloptera'' <small>(Bezzi, 1913)</small><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/163093701 | title=Paralleloptera Bezzi, 1913 }}</ref> * ''Asphaera quadrifasciata'' * ''Asphaera reflexicollis'' <small>Bechyne</small> * ''Asphaera separata'' <small>(Harold, 1881)</small> * ''Asphaera umbraticus'' <small>(Olivier, 1808)</small> * ''Asphaera vernalis'' <small>Jacoby, 1905</small> * ''Asphaera weyrauchi'' <small>Bechyne</small> {{Div col end}}
== Gallery == <gallery> Asphaera paralleloptera.jpg|''Asphaera paralleloptera'' </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Nadein2013> {{Cite web | access-date = 2019-07-02 | title = Catalogue of Alticini genera of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): ''Asphaera'' Chevrolat, 1843 | date = 2013 | last1 = Nadein | first1 = K. S. | publisher = Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg | url = https://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/addpages/Nadein/Asphaera.htm }}</ref> }}
==External links== {{refbegin}} * {{Commons category-inline|Asphaera}} {{refend}}
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Category:Alticini Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Taxa named by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel Category:Taxa named by Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat
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