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Genus Derospidea

Trirhabda ? - Derospidea brevicollis - female chrys. larva - Derospidea beetle - Derospidea brevicollis larva - Derospidea brevicollis Unknown Leaf Beetle - Derospidea brevicollis black and yellow striped leaf beetle - Derospidea brevicollis beetle on Zanthoxylum hirsutum (Rutaceae) - Derospidea brevicollis beetle on Zanthoxylum hirsutum (Rutaceae) - Derospidea brevicollis
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 Galerucinae (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles)
Tribe Galerucini
No Taxon (Section Coelomerites)
Genus Derospidea
Explanation of Names
Derospidea Blake 1931
Numbers
3 spp., of which 2 in our area(1)
Range
se. US north to MA & KS, west to TX; Mexico(1)
Food
on Rutaceae (Citrus, Zanthoxylum)(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.