Lamprosphaerus

{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Central and South America}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Lamprosphaerus | display_parents = 2 | authority = Baly, 1859<ref name="Baly1859">{{cite journal|last=Baly|first=J. S.|year=1859|title=Descriptions of new genera and species of Phytophagous insects|journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History|series=3|volume=4|issue=20|pages=124–128|doi=10.1080/00222935908697096}}</ref> | type_species = ''Lamprosphaerus abdominalis'' | type_species_authority = Baly, 1859 | synonyms = * ''Chalcoplacis'' Baly, 1865 (nec Chevrolat ''in'' Dejean, 1836)<ref name="Baly1864b">{{cite journal|last=Baly|first=J. S.|year=1864|title=Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Phytophaga|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14764253|journal=Transactions of the Entomological Society of London|volume=12|issue=4|pages=333–357|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2311.1864.tb00109.x}}</ref> * ''Phaedra'' Chapuis, 1874 (nec Horsfield, 1829)<ref name="Chapuis1874">{{cite contribution|last=Chapuis|first=F.|year=1874|title=Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9655043|editor-last1=Lacordaire|editor-first1=J.T.|editor-last2=Chapuis|editor-first2=F.|encyclopedia=Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des coléoptères|volume=10 |publisher=Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret|place=Paris|pages=i–iv, 1–455}}</ref> * ''Phaedrias'' Lefèvre, 1885<ref name="Lefevre1885">{{cite journal|last=Lefèvre|first=É.|year=1885|title=Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27434526|journal=Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège|series=2|volume=11|issue=16|pages=1–172}}</ref> }}

'''''Lamprosphaerus''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is found in Central America and South America.<ref name="Bechyné1953">{{cite journal|last=Bechyné|first=J.|year=1953|title=Katalog der neotropischen Eumolpiden (Col. Phytoph. Chrysomeloidea)|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49645311|journal=Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey|volume=4|pages=26–303|language=German}}</ref><ref name="Flowers1995">{{cite journal|last=Flowers|first=R. Wills|year=1995|title=Some Corrections to the Generic Records of Central American Eumolpinae (Chrysomelidae: Coleoptera)|journal=The Florida Entomologist|volume=78|issue=3|pages=553–557|doi=10.2307/3495545|jstor=3495545|url=http://journals.fcla.edu/flaent/article/view/59163|doi-access=free}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Species== {{div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''Lamprosphaerus abdominalis'' Baly, 1859<ref name="Baly1859"/> * ''Lamprosphaerus aerosus'' Weise, 1921 * ''Lamprosphaerus alternatus'' (Baly, 1878) * ''Lamprosphaerus brevicornis'' (Jacoby, 1890) * ''Lamprosphaerus buckleyi'' (Jacoby, 1881) * ''Lamprosphaerus chapuisi'' (Jacoby, 1890) * ''Lamprosphaerus coccinellinus'' Bechyné, 1950 * ''Lamprosphaerus constitutus'' (Bechyné, 1950) * ''Lamprosphaerus dives'' (Lefèvre, 1877)<ref name="Lefevre1877">{{cite journal|last=Lefèvre|first=E.|year=1877|title=Descriptions de coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus de la famille des Eumolpides (1re partie)|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8244443|journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France|series=5|volume=7|pages=115–166}}</ref> * ''Lamprosphaerus elephas'' (Baly, 1878) * ''Lamprosphaerus femininus'' Bechyné, 1950 * ''Lamprosphaerus femoratus'' (Baly, 1878) * ''Lamprosphaerus fulvipes'' (Jacoby, 1881) * ''Lamprosphaerus fulvitarsis'' (Jacoby, 1890) * ''Lamprosphaerus gigas'' (Jacoby, 1897) * ''Lamprosphaerus gloriosus'' (Lefèvre, 1876) * ''Lamprosphaerus granarius'' (Erichson, 1847) * ''Lamprosphaerus hirticollis'' (Baly, 1878) * ''Lamprosphaerus ingenuus'' (Baly, 1878) * ''Lamprosphaerus jacobyi'' Bechyné, 1953<ref name="Bechyné1953"/> * ''Lamprosphaerus maximus'' (Lefèvre, 1875) * ''Lamprosphaerus mexicanus'' (Jacoby, 1890) * ''Lamprosphaerus nitidicollis'' (Baly, 1878) * ''Lamprosphaerus opacicollis'' (Lefèvre, 1875) * ''Lamprosphaerus oribocanus'' Bechyné & Bechyné, 1961<ref name="BechynéBechyné1961">{{cite journal|last1=Bechyné|first1=J.|last2=Springlovà de Bechyné|first2=B.|year=1961|title=Notas sobre Chrysomeloidea Neotropicais II|url=http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1961_Separata_152.pdf|journal=Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi|series=New Series|volume=37|pages=1–93|archive-date=2019-05-11|access-date=2019-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511180157/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1961_Separata_152.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''Lamprosphaerus plagioderoides'' Bechyné, 1955<ref name="Bechyné1955">{{cite journal|last=Bechyné|first=J.|year=1955|title=Reise des Herrn G. Frey in Sudamerika: Eumolpidae|url=http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1955_Separata_107.pdf|journal=Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey|volume=6|pages=569–657|archive-date=2019-01-19|access-date=2019-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119175740/http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1955_Separata_107.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''Lamprosphaerus regina'' Bechyné, 1950 * ''Lamprosphaerus rufipes'' (Chapuis, 1874) * ''Lamprosphaerus rufiventris'' (Erichson, 1847) * ''Lamprosphaerus similis'' Bechyné, 1950 * ''Lamprosphaerus sumptuosus'' (Baly, 1865) * ''Lamprosphaerus virens'' Bechyné, 1950 {{div col end}}

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Category:Eumolpinae Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Beetles of Central America Category:Beetles of South America Category:Taxa named by Joseph Sugar Baly

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