Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Xanthonia villosula

Xanthonia villosula - male Xanthonia villosula (F. E. Melsheimer) - Xanthonia villosula Xanthonia villosula (F. E. Melsheimer) - Xanthonia villosula Xanthonia villosula (F. E. Melsheimer) - Xanthonia villosula Xanthonia villosula (F. E. Melsheimer) - Xanthonia villosula Xanthonia villosula (F. E. Melsheimer) - Xanthonia villosula Xanthonia villosula (F. E. Melsheimer) - Xanthonia villosula Xanthonia villosula (F. E. Melsheimer) - Xanthonia villosula
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)
Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
Subfamily Eumolpinae
Tribe Adoxini
No Taxon (Section Leprotites)
Genus Xanthonia
Species villosula (Xanthonia villosula)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Xanthonia villosula (F. E. Melsheimer)
Orig. Comb: Eumolpus villosulus F. E. Melsheimer 1847
Size
length 2.8–3.5 mm (1)
Identification
ground color of dorsum light reddish brown, usually immaculate or rarely with faint indications of elytral maculae (1)
Range
e NA (TX-GA-QC-SD) - Map (2)(3)(4)(5); in Texas, known from the eastern third of the state (1)
Season
April-June in TX (1)
Food
oak associations likely represent true food plants. Some Texas specimens were beaten from Quercus nigra and Q. stellata (1)
Print References
Melsheimer, F.E. (1847) Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 3, 158–181.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.A taxonomic review of the Xanthonia species occurring in Texas (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)
Riley, E.G., D.M. Weisman, and M.A. Quinn. 2019. Zootaxa 4668(1): 001–029.
2.The species of Xanthonia Baly 1863 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) in North America east of the Mississippi River
Staines C.L., Weisman D.M. 2001. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 103: 157-183.
3.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
4.An Illustrated Inventory of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas
Edward G. Riley. 2013. Texas A&M University, Dept. Entomology, College Station.
5.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)