Chloropterus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in Eastern Europe, West to Central Asia and North Africa.
The genus was originally established under the name Heterocnemis by the Russian entomologist Ferdinand Morawitz in 1860 for a single species, Heterocnemis versicolor. However, the name Heterocnemis had already been used for a genus of flower chafers (Cetoniinae), so Morawitz renamed his genus to Chloropterus the following year.
Species Chloropterus bimaculatus (Raffray, 1873) – Algeria, Morocco Chloropterus fiorii Ruffo, 1965 – Libya Chloropterus grandis Weise, 1889 – Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China (Xinjiang), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia (west Siberia) Chloropterus inornatus (Chen, 1935) – China (Xinjiang) Chloropterus lefevrei Reitter, 1890 Chloropterus lefevrei arabicus Lopatin, 2008 – United Arab Emirates Chloropterus lefevrei lefevrei Reitter, 1890 – Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Chloropterus mateui (Selman, 1969) – Algeria Chloropterus moldaviensis Pic, 1909 – Romania Chloropterus ornatus Lopatin, 1984 – Iran, Iraq Chloropterus pallidus Chobaut, 1898 – Algeria Chloropterus persicus (Baly, 1878) – Iran Chloropterus politus Berti & Rapilly, 1973 – Iran, Oman Chloropterus stigmaticollis Fairmaire, 1875 – Tunisia Chloropterus unguiculatus Lopatin, 1977 – Tajikistan Chloropterus versicolor (Morawitz, 1860) – Ukraine, southern European Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
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