40. Lapsana L.
Contributed by
David J. Bogler and George Yatskievych
One species,
Europe, Asia, introduced widely in North America.
Traditionally,
this genus was thought to comprise 5–10 mostly Asian species, but Pak and
Bremer (1995) reclassified all of the other species into distantly related
genera, leaving only a single widespread species in Lapsana.