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BIOLOGY AND PHYLOGENY OF THE CASSIDINAE GYLLENHAL SENSU LATO (TORTOISE AND LEAF-MINING BEETLES) (COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE)
- C. Chaboo
- Biology
- 2007
Abstract A parsimony analysis was undertaken to test subfamily and tribal group concepts of Cassidinae (ca. 2000 genera, ca. 6000 species). An integrated account of their biology was synthesized from… Expand
Origins and diversification of subsociality in leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Chrysomelinae)
- C. Chaboo, F. Frieiro-Costa, J. Gómez-Zurita, Rob Westerduijn
- Biology
- 26 August 2014
Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae; ~40,000 species) are commonly solitary animals but subsociality, maternal care of broods, is known in Cassidinae and Chrysomelinae. We report 11 novel records from Brazil… Expand
Faecal case architecture in the gibbosus species group of Neochlamisus Karren, 1972 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Chlamisini)
- C. Chaboo, C. Brown, D. J. Funk
- Biology
- 1 February 2008
Constructions composed of faeces are rare in insects, but occur in certain leaf-beetle clades. Members of the subfamily Cryptocephalinae share a complex behavioural and morphological synapomorphy,… Expand
First Report of Immatures, Genitalia and Maternal Care in Eugenysa columbiana (Boheman) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Eugenysini)
- C. Chaboo
- Biology
- 1 March 2002
Abstract Illustrated descriptions of larvae, pupae and adult genitalia are provided for Eugenysa columbiana (Boheman) in Costa Rica. These represent the first such descriptions for the tribe… Expand
Maternally inherited architecture in tertiary leaf beetles: paleoichnology of cryptocephaline fecal cases in Dominican and Baltic amber
- C. Chaboo, M. Engel, M. L. Chamorro-Lacayo
- Biology, Medicine
- Naturwissenschaften
- 23 June 2009
Complex ethological adaptations and intraspecific interactions leave few fossil traces. We document three Dominican (20 million years old [myo]) and Baltic (45 myo) amber fossils that exhibit firm… Expand
Range extensions of new world tortoise beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
- C. Chaboo
- Biology
- 2002
New country records with localities are provided for 63 species of New World Cassidinae. Data are based on specimens in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Instituion, Washington,… Expand
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Beetles (Coleoptera) of Peru: A Survey of the Families. Chrysomelidae: Alticinae (Flea Beetles)
Diversity in Peru: 84 genera, 370 species. Classification: Flea beetles (Alticinae in this work) are regarded by some as a tribe of Galerucinae (Alticini) based on lack of larval differences and some… Expand
Defensive Behaviors in Leaf Beetles: From the Unusual to the Weird
- C. Chaboo
- Biology
- 2011
Chrysomelid leaf beetles are a geologically ancient group of primarily herbivorous insects. As herbivores, they are important ecologically, in food chains, and economically, as pests or as… Expand
Beetle and plant arrow poisons of the Ju|’hoan and Hai||om San peoples of Namibia (Insecta, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae; Plantae, Anacardiaceae, Apocynaceae, Burseraceae)
- C. Chaboo, M. Biesele, Robert K Hitchcock, A. Weeks
- Biology, Medicine
- ZooKeys
- 1 February 2016
Abstract The use of archery to hunt appears relatively late in human history. It is poorly understood but the application of poisons to arrows to increase lethality must have occurred shortly after… Expand
Phytotelmatrichis, a new genus of Acrotrichinae (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) associated with the phytotelmata of Zingiberales plants in Peru.
Phytotelmatrichis, gen. n. a new genus of Ptiliidae: Acrotrichinae with two species Phytotelmatrichis peruviensis sp. n. and Phytotelmatrichis osopaddington sp. n. is described and illustrated. The… Expand