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Genus Neolema

Orange and Black Beetle - ID? - Neolema cordata Neolema ephippium Neolema ovalis White - Neolema ovalis Panagaeus? Philorhizus quadrisignatus? - Neolema sexpunctata Neolema sexpunctata Neolema sexpunctata Neolema sexpunctata (Six-Spotted Neolema) - Neolema sexpunctata Neolema ovalis? - Neolema ovalis
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 Criocerinae
Tribe Lemini
Genus Neolema
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
originally erected as a subgenus of Lema(1)(2)
Explanation of Names
Neolema Monrós 1951
Numbers
7 spp. in our area, 9 total(1)
Identification
Key to spp. in (2)
Range
nearctic: PA‒MO‒AZ into Mexico(1)
Food
Primary hosts include Commelina and Tradescantia (Commelinaceae)(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.
2.A revision of the subfamily Criocerinae (Chrysomelidae) of North America north of Mexico.
Richard E. White. 1993. USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 25 March, 2005 - 3:14pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 November, 2023 - 10:30pm

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