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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Chrysomelinae » Chrysomelini » Doryphorina » Calligrapha » subgenus Calligrapha (Calligrapha subgenus Calligrapha) » philadelphica group (Calligrapha philadelphica group) » Dogwood Calligrapha (Calligrapha philadelphica)

Species Calligrapha philadelphica - Dogwood Calligrapha

Classification · Other Common Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited
Calligrapha Beetle - Calligrapha philadelphica newly emerged Dogwood Calligrapha - Calligrapha philadelphica Dogwood Calligrapha - Calligrapha philadelphica - male - female calligrapha - Calligrapha philadelphica Lady (?) beetle - Calligrapha philadelphica Mating Leaf Beetles - Calligrapha philadelphica Fitzgerald Lake Calligrapha - Calligrapha philadelphica Calligrapha philadelphica
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)
No Taxon (philadelphica group)
Species philadelphica (Dogwood Calligrapha)
Other Common Names
Dogwood Leaf Beetle
Size
7-9 mm(1)
Identification
Head and thorax dark metallic green, elytra off white marked with dark spots and stripes, and the antennae, legs, and mouthparts are brown.
Range
n. & e. NA south to GA-LA-NE-WA(2)
Habitat
Woods, forest edges
Food
on Cornus (dogwood)(1)
Works Cited
1.A key to Calligrapha species of Atlantic Canada
2.New distribution records and biogeography of Calligrapha species in North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae)
By J. Gómez-Zurita
Contributed by tom murray on 22 November, 2005 - 6:49pm
Additional contributions by Stephen Cresswell, v belov
Last updated 27 March, 2011 - 5:43pm

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