# Asphaera

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{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Asphaera lustrans P1150196a.jpg
| image_caption = ''Asphaera lustrans''
| taxon = Asphaera
| authority = [Duponchel](/source/Philog%C3%A8ne_Auguste_Joseph_Duponchel) & [Chevrolat](/source/Louis_Alexandre_Auguste_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](/source/Paris)|page=227}}</ref>
| display_parents = 4
| type_species = ''[Asphaera subfasciata](/source/Asphaera_subfasciata)''
| type_species_authority = [Clark](/source/Hamlet_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](/source/nomen_nudum)'')</small>
}}

'''''Asphaera''''' is a genus of [flea beetle](/source/flea_beetle)s in the family [Chrysomelidae](/source/Chrysomelidae), containing some 130 species, found in [North America](/source/North_America), [Central America](/source/Central_America), and the [Neotropics](/source/Neotropical_Realm).<ref name=Nadein2013/>

==Selected species==
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* ''[Asphaera abdominalis](/source/Asphaera_abdominalis)'' <small>(Chevrolat, 1835)</small>
* ''[Asphaera bitaeniata](/source/Asphaera_bitaeniata)'' <small>(Jacoby, 1880)</small>
* ''[Asphaera cruciata](/source/Asphaera_cruciata)'' <small>(Olivier, 1808)</small>
* ''[Asphaera discicollis](/source/Asphaera_discicollis)'' <small>Jacoby, 1905</small>
* ''[Asphaera fuscofasciata](/source/Asphaera_fuscofasciata)'' <small>Jacoby, 1905</small>
* ''[Asphaera lustrans](/source/Asphaera_lustrans)'' <small>(Crotch, 1873)</small> (shiny flea beetle)
* ''[Asphaera magistralis](/source/Asphaera_magistralis)''
* ''[Asphaera meticulosa](/source/Asphaera_meticulosa)''
* ''[Asphaera nobilatata](/source/Asphaera_nobilatata)'' <small>(Fabricius, 1887)</small>
* ''[Asphaera paralleloptera](/source/Asphaera_paralleloptera)'' <small>(Bezzi, 1913)</small><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/163093701 | title=Paralleloptera Bezzi, 1913 }}</ref>
* ''[Asphaera quadrifasciata](/source/Asphaera_quadrifasciata)''
* ''[Asphaera reflexicollis](/source/Asphaera_reflexicollis)'' <small>Bechyne</small>
* ''[Asphaera separata](/source/Asphaera_separata)'' <small>(Harold, 1881)</small>
* ''[Asphaera umbraticus](/source/Asphaera_umbraticus)'' <small>(Olivier, 1808)</small>
* ''[Asphaera vernalis](/source/Asphaera_vernalis)'' <small>Jacoby, 1905</small>
* ''[Asphaera weyrauchi](/source/Asphaera_weyrauchi)'' <small>Bechyne</small>
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== 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==
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* {{Commons category-inline|Asphaera}}
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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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