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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) » Eumolpinae » Eumolpini » Section Iphimeites » Metaparia » Metaparia viridimicans

Species Metaparia viridimicans

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Metaparia viridimicans (Horn) - Metaparia viridimicans - male

Metaparia viridimicans (Horn) - Metaparia viridimicans - 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 Eumolpinae

Tribe Eumolpini

No Taxon (Section Iphimeites)

Genus Metaparia

Species viridimicans (Metaparia viridimicans)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Metaparia viridimicans (Horn)

Orig. Comb: Colaspoides viridimicans Horn 1892

Numbers

3 spp. north of Mex (1)

Size

4 mm (Horn 1892)

Identification

variable:

Specimens determined by E.G. Riley:

Range

AZ to s. TX - Map (2)(3), mostly Corpus to RGV

Season

Mar-May (3)

Food

mesquite, ebony (Fabaceae) (4)

See Also

Metaparia opacicollis

- Range: e. NM to TX coast

Det. E.G. Riley

Print References

Horn, G.H. 1892. The Eumolpini of Boreal America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 29: 195-234.

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.	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 25 February, 2009 - 3:22pm
Last updated 29 May, 2022 - 9:04pm

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