Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Margaridisa

small jumping beetle - Margaridisa atriventris Margaridisa Tiny brown beetle - Margaridisa atriventris Tiny brown beetle - Margaridisa atriventris Margaridisa Margaridisa Margaridisa? Maybe M. atriventris? - Margaridisa atriventris Tiny beetle  - Margaridisa
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 (Crepidodera Genus Group)
Genus Margaridisa
Explanation of Names
Margaridisa J. Bechyné 1958
Numbers
A single described + several undescribed (southern) species in our area, (dozens in the Neotropics, mostly unnamed) (1)
Range
M. atriventris ranges from se. Canada to FL & TX, at last 3 more (undescribed) -- across the southern US (1)
Food
N. Amer. spp. on Euphorbiaceae (Acalypha, Tragia) (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.