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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) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Disonycha Genus Group » Disonycha » Disonycha admirabila

Species Disonycha admirabila

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

Which beetle, please? - Disonycha admirabila

Beetle - Disonycha? - Disonycha admirabila

Disonycha admirabila Blatchley - Disonycha admirabila

Another Disonycha misfit - Disonycha admirabila

Disonycha admirabila? - Disonycha admirabila

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 (Disonycha Genus Group)

Genus Disonycha

Species admirabila (Disonycha admirabila)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Disonycha admirabilis ( Blake: 1934; emendation, possibly valid according ICZN Art.34.2)

Explanation of Names

Disonycha admirabila Blatchley 1924

Size

4.8- 5.8 m.

Identification

Quite small, more oval than most other species. Pronotum usually unspotted, or with two spots. Head with darker labrum, sometimes dark frontal tubercles, but pale on vertex.

Most similar to D. caroliniana, but the latter with pale labrum.

Range

e. US (TX-FL-NY-KS) (1)

Food

There is no confirmed host information for the species. Published plant associations: Andropogon (a grass), peach, Polygonum,

and two species of Fabaceae/Mimosoidae: Chamaecrista fasciculata and Mimosa quadrivalvis. Fabaceae are plausible hosts,

and some photo records seem to confirm a relation.

Remarks

"I suspect there may be a complex of species under admirabila." (E.G. Riley, pers. comm.)

Print References

Blatchley, W.S. 1924. Some New Halticini from the Indiana and Ontario. Journal of the new York Entomological Society, 32: 90-92.

Works Cited

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

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 20 April, 2009 - 2:37pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche
Last updated 28 November, 2018 - 9:28am

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