Zulema Gabriela

Nov 15, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Departamento de Ecología |Genética y Evolución |Zulema Gabriela

Chrysomelinae species have a striking ecological specialization due to their trophic selection on plants usually belonging to the same botanical family. Calligrapha (Chevrolat) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) is a diverse genus that comprises about 80 species distributed in most of the American continent. Cytogenetic studies of Calligrapha refer to 18 species with a modal diploid chromosome number 2n = 23 = 22 + XO (male) and a meioformula n = 11 + XO (male). A population of C.