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Genus Xenochalepus

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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 Cassidinae (Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines)
Tribe Chalepini
Genus Xenochalepus
Explanation of Names
Xenochalepus Weise 1910
Numbers
4 spp. in our area (all in the nominate subgenus), ~100 spp. in 2 subgenera total(1)
Identification
key to species (2)
Range
Neotropical genus, with 3 spp. ranging into sw. US and one in the Atlantic states (MD-GA) and MO(3)
Food
on Fabaceae (Glycine, Phaseolus, Robinia)(3)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of the hispines of the World
2.Revision of the tribe Chalepini of America North of Mexico. I. Genus Xenochalepus Weise (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Janardhan G. Butte . 1968. The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 45-62.
3.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.
Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 2 August, 2009 - 1:54am
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov, Edward Ruden
Last updated 8 February, 2020 - 3:43pm

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