Zeugophorinae Boving et Craighead, 1931

Sergeev, Maxim E. & Legalov, Andrei A., 2022, Review of leaf beetles of the family Megalopodidae (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea) from Siberia and the Russian Far East, Ecologica Montenegrina 57, pp. 44-70 : 48-52

Subfamily: Zeugophorinae Boving et Craighead, 1931

Remarks. The subfamily Zeugophorinae is represented by the genus Zeugophora Kunze, 1818 , with included two subgenera, nominotypic Zeugophora Kunze, 1818 and Pedrillia Westwood, 1864 ( Monrós 1959; Gressitt, Kimoto 1961; Kimoto, Gressit 1979; Medvedev 1997; Reid 1995; Schöller 2009; Silfverberg 2010; Warchałowski 2010; Li, Liang 2018) in the world fauna. Pedrillia was recently synonymized by Sekerka and Vives (2013) under Zeugophora .

The Zeugophorinae are associated with tree and bushy; their larvae are miners and develop in the thickness of leaf tissues of host plants and pupate in the soil ( Zaitsev, Medvedev 2009). The Russian Zeugophorinae is trophically associated mainly with two families, Salicaceae (mainly Populus , less often Salix ) and Celastraceae (different species of Euonimus) ( Medvedev, Roginskaya 1988; Dubeshko, Medvedev 1989). The beetles of this subfamily feed and develop on plants of other families: Juglandaceae , Corylaceae , Betulaceae , Sapindaceae and Symplocaceae ( Jolivet, Hawkeswood 1995; Santiago Blay 2004; Li, Liang 2018; Rodriguez-Miron 2018; Takemoto 2019) in the tropics and subtropics.

The parasites of Zeugophora include the families Mymaridae , Braconidae , and Ichneumonidae of

Hymenoptera ( Warchałowski 1985; Lopatin, Nesterova 2005, https://www.ukbeetles.co.uk/).