Species Trirhabda pilosa

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Works Cited

New subspecies (vittata) for BG from eastside of the Sierra Nevada - Trirhabda pilosa

Sierra Nevada station - Trirhabda pilosa

sage brush leaf beetle - Trirhabda pilosa

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 Galerucini

No Taxon (Section Coelomerites)

Genus Trirhabda

Species pilosa (Trirhabda pilosa)

Size

4.5-6.8mm long (1)

Identification

Pronotum conspicuously pubescent

Pronotal spots relatively large

Elytra densely pubescent, mostly green...with short medial yellow stripes on anterior quarter of their length (see Fig.9 here)

Host plant sagebrush

[Above culled from key and description in Blake (1931)]

Range

West from Montana and Wyoming to southern British Columbia and California (2)

Food

Host Plant: Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) (2)

Print References

Blake D.H. (1931) Revision of the species of beetles of the genus Trirhabda north of Mexico. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 79(2):1-36 (Full text)

Works Cited

1.	A Synopsis of the North American Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) John A. Wilcox. 1965. New York State Museum and Science Service.

2.	Phylogeny and host plant association in the leaf beetle genus Trirhabda LeConte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Swigoňová Z., Kjer K.M. 2004. Mol. Phylog. Evol. 32: 358‒374.

Contributed by v belov on 22 November, 2009 - 1:57pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff
Last updated 8 January, 2012 - 10:15pm

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