Species Calligrapha multipunctata - Common Willow Calligrapha

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

mating leaf beetles - Calligrapha multipunctata - male - female

gold and brown beetle found in Harrington Maine - Calligrapha multipunctata

Calligrapha multipunctata? - Calligrapha multipunctata - male - female

Calligrapha multipunctata (Say) - Calligrapha multipunctata

Calligrapha multipunctata? - Calligrapha multipunctata - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Chrysomelinae

Tribe Chrysomelini

Subtribe Doryphorina

Genus Calligrapha

No Taxon (subgenus Calligrapha)

Species multipunctata (Common Willow Calligrapha)

Size

6.5-8.5 mm(1)

Identification

differs from C. philadelphica primarily in having the pronotum light with some large dark areas, rather than uniformly dark. Also, dark areas including spots are more likely to be dark metallic green in C. philadelphica vs black in C. multipunctata.

C. multipunctata bigsbyana, C. suturella, and C. philadelphica are all similar, but note differences in pale pronotal band and elytral markings. Gómez-Zurita et al. (2004)

Range

most of NA(2)

Season

April 17 to June 20 in AL(3)

Food

on willows (Salix, Salicaceae)(4)

Print References

(1)(5)

Gómez-Zurita J., Vogler A.P., Funk D.J. (2004) Diagnosing an overlooked North American taxon: biological observations and mitochondrial insights on Calligrapha suturella Schaeffer, 1933 new status (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97(1): 28-36 (Full text)

Internet References

Texas Beetles

Works Cited

1.	How to Know the Beetles By Ross H. Arnett, N. M. Downie, H. E. Jaques

2.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico By Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno

3.	The leaf beetles of Alabama By Edward Balsbaugh and Kirby Hays

4.	Host Plants of Leaf Beetle Species Occuring in the United States and Canada By Shawn Clark, Douglas LeDoux, Terry Seeno, Edward Riley, Arthur Gilbert, and James Sullivan. 2004.

5.	A Review of the North American Chrysomeline Leaf Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) By John A. Wilcox

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 12 November, 2005 - 8:11pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Stephen Cresswell, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 11 April, 2012 - 4:20pm

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