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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Case-bearing Leaf Beetles (Cryptocephalinae) » Cryptocephalini » Cryptocephalina » Diachus » Bronze Leaf Beetle (Diachus auratus)

Species Diachus auratus - Bronze Leaf Beetle

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

Diachus auratus (Fabricius) - Diachus auratus

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 Cryptocephalinae (Case-bearing Leaf Beetles)

Tribe Cryptocephalini

Subtribe Cryptocephalina

Genus Diachus

Species auratus (Bronze Leaf Beetle)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Diachus auratus (Fabricius)

Orig. Comb: Cryptocephalus auratus Fabricius 1801

Explanation of Names

auratus (L). 'golden' (1)

Identification

See LeConte (1880) for key to most spp. (2)

Range

e. NA to CA, + other scattered w. NA records / Mex. to S. Amer. / W. Indies - Map (3)(4), mostly TX & w. coast

adventive in Australia, Japan, Hawaii, and various other Pacific Islands

Food

Adults found on many unrelated plants, esp. plants in bloom (2)

Remarks

the most widely dist. Diachus in NA (3)

Print References

LeConte J.L. 1880. Short studies of North American Coleoptera. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 8: 163–218.

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	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.

3.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 19 August, 2008 - 7:08pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 14 June, 2022 - 10:29am

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