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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) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini)

Tribe Alticini - Flea Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Chaetocnema Altica? 01 - Altica Epitrix fasciata Blatchley - Epitrix fasciata tiny jumper - Chaetocnema confinis Leaf beetle on bottle gentian - Disonycha beetle - Epitrix Flea beetle - Disonycha - Disonycha A familiar Disonycha - Kuschelina
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 Galerucinae (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles)
Tribe Alticini (Flea Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly considered a subfamily (Alticinae)
Explanation of Names
most members of this tribe are good jumpers, thus the common name
Numbers
the largest tribe of the family, with 470 described spp. in ~50 genera in our area and 8,000-10,000 spp. in ca. 500 genera worldwide (rich tropical faunas poorly known)
Genera not yet in the guide: Acrocyum (1 sp., TX), Pseudodibolia (1 sp., se. US), Acallepitrix (1 sp., OH-FL-MO-TX), Argopistes (1 sp., FL)(1)
Identification
Enlarged hind femora are distinctive, though not all alticines have them
The online key to palearctic genera(2) is helpful with our fauna
Photo gallery of 46 ND spp.(3)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA
Remarks
Most males have protarsomere I enlarged
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)
2.[Online] Guide to Palearctic flea beetle genera, by Alexander S. Konstantinov and Natalia J. Vanderberg
3.Common flea beetles of North Dakota, by Gerald M. Fauske
Contributed by tom murray on 21 December, 2005 - 5:29pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 29 July, 2011 - 9:00am

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