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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Capraita thyamoides

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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 Alticini (Flea Beetles)
No Taxon (Oedionychis Genus Group)
Genus Capraita
Species thyamoides (Capraita thyamoides)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Capraita thyamoides (Crotch)
Orig. Comb: Oedionychis thyamoides Crotch 1873
Size
4.4 mm (BG data)
Range
e US, Ont. (PA-AL to SD-CO-TX) - Map (1)(2), mostly ne. US & se CAN
Food
reported in association with a number of different, unrelated plants, but some of these associations were probably adventitious(3) The only plants they mention that were clearly being fed on (by adults) are Scrophularia and Veronicastrum virginicum (Scrophulariaceae)
See Also
Disonycha discoidea
- Range: se. US
Det. E. G. Riley, 2012
Print References
Crotch, G.R. 1873. Materials for the study of the Phytophaga of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 25: 19-83.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
3.Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada
Clark et al. 2004. Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.