Species Chrysomela texana - Red-headed Texas Chrysomela

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Red-headed Willow Chryso - Chrysomela texana

Red-headed Texas Chrysomela? - Chrysomela texana

Leaf beetle on Salix, Chrysomela texana? - Chrysomela texana

Chrysomela texana (Schaeffer) - Chrysomela texana

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Chrysomelinae

Genus Chrysomela

Species texana (Red-headed Texas Chrysomela)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Syn: Melasoma texana Schaeffer 1919

Explanation of Names

Common name from appearance, range and genus.

Numbers

Sixteen species of this Holarctic genus occur in the US and Canada (1)

Eight species in the Chrysomela vigintipunctata Species Group (2)

Identification

Head, pronotum, underside, and legs entirely reddish-yellow or virtually so (Wilcox, 1972)

Range

Central Texas south into Mexico. (2), (Wilcox, 1972)

Food

Salix nigra and S. exigua in south Texas (3)

Print References

Wilcox, J.A. 1972. A review of the North American Chrysomelinae leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). New York Museum and Science Service Bulletin, 421: 1–37.

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)

2.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico By Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno

3.	Host Plants of Leaf Beetle Species Occuring in the United States and Canada By Shawn M. Clark, Douglas G. LeDoux, Terry N. Seeno, Edward G. Riley, Arthur L. Gilbert, and James M. Sullivan. 2004.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 26 July, 2008 - 9:39am
Additional contributions by Ron M.
Last updated 1 July, 2009 - 12:10pm

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