Editing Chrysomeloidea

{{short description|Superfamily of beetles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Colorado potato beetle.jpg 
| image_caption = [[Colorado potato beetle]], ''Leptinotarsa decemlineata''
| taxon = Chrysomeloidea
| display_parents = 3
| authority = [[Pierre André Latreille|Latreille]], 1802
| subdivision_ranks = Families
| subdivision = 
[[Cerambycidae]] - long-horned beetles<br/>
[[Chrysomelidae]] - leaf beetles<br/>
[[Disteniidae]]<br/>
[[Megalopodidae]]<br/>
[[Orsodacnidae]]<br/>
[[Oxypeltidae]]<br/>
[[Vesperidae]]
}}

The '''Chrysomeloidea''' are an enormous [[Taxonomic rank|superfamily]] of [[beetle]]s, with tens of thousands of species. The largest families are [[Cerambycidae]], long-horned beetles, with more than 35,000 species, and [[Chrysomelidae]], leaf beetles, with more than 13,000 species.<ref name=gbif/>

==Overview==
The Chrysomeloidea, like all other Phytophaga, typically have the fourth tarsal segment reduced and hidden by the third segment. Several species in these two families are important plant pests. The [[spotted cucumber beetle]] is a serious pest of vegetables and is a very common insect on all sorts of flowers. The [[Colorado potato beetle]], ''Leptinotarsa decemlineata'', attacks [[potato]]es and other members of the [[Solanaceae]]. The [[Asian long-horned beetle]] is a serious pest of trees where it has been introduced. {{source needed|reason=This paragraph needs references to reliable sources.|date=October 2019}}. It seems almost evident that during the Jurassic and the Cretaceous the Chrysomelidae were pollen feeders and then they became external and later on internal feeders on or in leaves, buds, twigs and roots.<ref>{{Citation|last=Jolivet|first=Pierre|title=Food Habits and Food Selection of Chrysomelidae. Bionomic and Evolutionary Perspectives|date=1988|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3105-3_1|work=Biology of Chrysomelidae|pages=1–24|editor-last=Jolivet|editor-first=P.|series=Series Entomologica|place=Dordrecht|publisher=Springer Netherlands|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-94-009-3105-3_1|isbn=978-94-009-3105-3|access-date=2020-10-17|editor2-last=Petitpierre|editor2-first=E.|editor3-last=Hsiao|editor3-first=T. H.}}</ref>

Some authorities in the past have suggested removing the [[Cerambycidae]] and related families ([[Disteniidae]], [[Oxypeltidae]], and [[Vesperidae]]) from Chrysomeloidea to create a separate superfamily "Cerambycoidea" (e.g.,<ref>{{cite journal |author-link=Petr Švácha |first1=P. |last1=Švácha |first2=M.L. |last2=Danilevsky |year=1990 |title=Cerambycoid larvae of Europe and Soviet Union (Coleoptera Cerambycoidea). Part I. |journal=Entomologia Generalis |volume=15 |issue=3 |page=202}}</ref>), but in the absence of evidence to support the [[monophyletic|monophyly]] of the resulting groups, this proposal has not been widely accepted by the scientific community.<ref name=Nie2020/><ref name=Bouchard2011/><ref name=itis/><ref name=bugguide/>

== References ==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=itis>
{{Cite web| title=Chrysomeloidea Report
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=114496
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| access-date=2022-07-02
}}</ref>

<ref name=bugguide>
{{Cite web| title=Chrysomeloidea superfamily Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/40620
| website=BugGuide.net
| access-date=2022-07-02
}}</ref>

<ref name=gbif>
{{Cite web| title=Coleoptera
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1470
| website=GBIF, Global Biodiversity Information Facility
| access-date=2022-07-02
}}</ref>

<ref name=Bouchard2011>
{{Cite journal
| title = Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
| date = 2011
| last1 = Bouchard | first1 = Patrice
| last2 = Bousquet | first2 = Yves
| last3 = Davies | first3 = Anthony E.
| last4 = Alonso-Zarazaga | first4 = Miguel A.
| last5 = Lawrence | first5 = John F.
| last6 = Lyal | first6 = Chris H. C.
| last7 = Newton | first7 = Alfred F.
| last8 = Reid | first8 = Chris A. M.
| last9 = Schmitt | first9 = Michael
| last10 = Ślipiński | first10 = S. Adam
| last11 = Smith | first11 = Andrew B. T.
| display-authors = 4
| journal = ZooKeys
| issue = 88| pages = 1–972
| url = https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4001
| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.88.807
| pmc=3088472
| pmid=21594053
| doi-access = free
}}</ref>

<ref name=Nie2020>
{{Cite journal
| title = Higher-level phylogeny of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea) inferred from mitochondrial genomes
| date = 2020
| first1=Ruie| last1=Nie| first2=Alfried P.| last2=Vogler| first3=Xing-Ke| last3=Yang| first4=Meiying| last4=Lin
| journal = Systematic Entomology
| volume=46| issue = 1 | pages = 56–70
| url = https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/syen.12447
| doi = 10.1111/syen.12447
| s2cid = 225359376
}}</ref>
}}
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== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book |editor-last1=Löbl |editor-first1=Ivan |editor-last2=Smetana |editor-first2=Ales |title=Chrysomeloidea |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ |date=2010 |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|Brill]] |isbn=978-90-04-26091-7}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Haddad |first1=S. |last2=McKenna |first2=D.D. |year=2016 |title=Phylogeny and evolution of the superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)|journal= Syst Entomol |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=697–716 |doi=10.1111/syen.12179|s2cid=87055542 |doi-access=free }}
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== External links ==
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*{{cite web |title=''Chrysomeloidea'' |work=Atlas of Living Australia |url=https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:371caa58-0433-459a-b3ff-fcc076433f73}}
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