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Genus Lexiphanes

Lexiphanes teapensis (Jacoby) - Lexiphanes teapensis

mating beetles - Lexiphanes - male - female

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

Genus Lexiphanes

Explanation of Names

Lexiphanes Gistel 1848

Numbers

6 spp. in our area(1)

Range

e. NA and sw. US into Mexico(1)

Remarks

our only representative of the tribe Monachulina Leng 1920

Works Cited

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

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 11 November, 2008 - 6:13pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 1 March, 2015 - 10:50pm

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