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Genus Ophraella

Salt marsh beetle - Ophraella conferta Ophraella - Ophraella communa Ophraella sp.? - Ophraella communa Ophraella? - Ophraella americana Ophraella communa? - Ophraella communa Ophraella notulata  - Ophraella conferta Mating, Ophraella? - Ophraella communa - male - female Galerucini - Ophraella sexvittata
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 Schematizites)
Genus Ophraella
Explanation of Names
Ophraella Wilcox 1965
Numbers
14 spp. in the genus, all in our area (1)
Range
throughout US and Canada, incl. arctic regions (1)
Food
var. Asteraceae (2)
Print References
LeSage L. (1986) A taxonomic monograph of the Nearctic galerucine genus Ophraella Wilcox (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 133: 1-75.
Futuyma D.J. (1991) A new species of Ophraella Wilcox (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Southeastern United States. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 99: 643-653. (Full text)
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.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.