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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) » Clytrini » Babiina » Babia » Western Babia (Babia tetraspilota)

Species Babia tetraspilota - Western Babia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Babia tetraspilota J. L. LeConte - Babia tetraspilota

Babia tetraspilota LeConte - Babia tetraspilota

Babia tetraspilota texana Schaeffer - Babia tetraspilota

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 Clytrini

Subtribe Babiina

Genus Babia

Species tetraspilota (Western Babia)

Explanation of Names

Babia tetraspilota J. L. LeConte 1858

tetraspilota (G). 'four-spot' (1)

Numbers

2 spp. n. of Mex. (2)

Identification

Western sp. ---------- Eastern sp.

B. tetraspilota --------- B. quadriguttata

CA-TX-NE-WY / Mex. = NM-FL-NY-MN / Can. (2)

Both spmns Det. E. G. Riley

Both spmns coll. at the same site in Austin, TX

Range

w US (CA-TX-NE-WY) / Mex. - Map (2)(3)

Season

Mar-Jul in TX (BG data)

Food

Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) (4)

Print References

LeConte, J.L. 1858. Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera, chiefly collected by the United States and Mexican boundary commission, under Major W.H. Emory, U.S.A. Proceedings Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10: 59-89.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

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

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

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

4.	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.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 9 January, 2009 - 8:11pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 5 August, 2023 - 5:26pm

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