title: Bassareus (beetle)
text: # Bassareus (beetle)
  
  Bassareus is a genus of case-bearing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about eight described species in Bassareus.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Bassareus areolatus (Suffrian, 1852)
  * Bassareus brunnipes (Olivier, 1791)
  * Bassareus clathratus (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)
  * Bassareus croceipennis J. L. LeConte, 1880
  * Bassareus detritus (Olivier, 1808)
  * Bassareus formosus (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)
  * Bassareus lituratus (Fabricius, 1801)
  * Bassareus mammifer (Newman, 1840)
  