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Genus Syphrea

Flea Beetle - Syphrea flavicollis Bernardia Flea Beetle - Syphrea Bernardia Flea Beetle - Syphrea A flea beetle - Syphrea flavicollis Red & blue flea beetle - Syphrea flavicollis Syphrea Syphrea Syphrea nana (Crotch) - Syphrea nana
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 Galerucinae (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles)
Tribe Alticini (Flea Beetles)
No Taxon (Syphrea Genus Group)
Genus Syphrea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Genus needs revision(1)
Explanation of Names
Syphrea Baly 1876
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, >100 total(1)
Range
neotropical group ranging into so. US(2):
S. burgessi FL
S. flavicollis sw. US
S. nana se. US
S. nitidiventris CA
Food
hosts: Euphorbiaceae(1)
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.