{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Australia and New Guinea}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Spilopyra sumptuosa 197763242.jpg | image_caption = ''Spilopyra sumptuosa'' | taxon = Spilopyra | authority = Baly, 1860<ref name="Baly1860">{{cite journal|first=J. S.|last=Baly|year=1860|title=Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Eumolpidae|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51723351|journal=The Journal of Entomology|volume=1|issue=1|pages=23–36}}</ref> | type_species = ''Spilopyra sumptuosa'' | type_species_authority = Baly, 1860 }}
'''''Spilopyra''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Spilopyrinae. It is found in eastern Australia and New Guinea.
The genus is distinguished from other genera in Spilopyrinae by highly contrasting patterns of metallic color on its head, pronotum and elytra.<ref name="ReidBeatson2010">{{cite journal|last1=Reid|first1=C. A. M.|last2=Beatson|first2=M.|year=2010|title=Revision of the Australo-Papuan genus ''Spilopyra'' Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Spilopyrinae)|url=http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a2d9/4d9d5ed15ab6d78833d8eeaab3a0a8eab08b.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228124605/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a2d9/4d9d5ed15ab6d78833d8eeaab3a0a8eab08b.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-02-28|journal=Zootaxa|volume=2692|pages=1–32|doi=10.11646/ZOOTAXA.2692.1.1 |s2cid=4509049 }}</ref>
==Species== * ''Spilopyra safrina'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – north Queensland * ''Spilopyra scratchley'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – eastern New Guinea * ''Spilopyra semiramis'' <small>Reid & Beatson, 2010</small><ref name="ReidBeatson2010"/> – central New Guinea * ''Spilopyra stirlingi'' <small>Lea, 1914</small><ref>{{cite journal|last=Lea|first=A.M.|year=1914|title=Notes on some miscellaneous Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36823499|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia|volume=38|pages=249–344}}</ref> – north Queensland * ''Spilopyra sumptuosa'' <small>Baly, 1860</small><ref name="Baly1860"/> – central Queensland to northern New South Wales
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Spilopyra Australian Faunal Directory – Genus ''Spilopyra'' Baly, 1860]
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Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Beetles of Australia Category:Beetles of Papua New Guinea Category:Taxa named by Joseph Sugar Baly
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