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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Blepharida Genus Group » Blepharida » Sumac Flea Beetle (Blepharida rhois)

Species Blepharida rhois - Sumac Flea Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited

Blepharida rhois larva - Blepharida rhois

Sumac Flea Beetles (Blepharida rhois)? - Blepharida rhois - male - female

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 (Blepharida Genus Group)

Genus Blepharida

Species rhois (Sumac Flea Beetle)

Other Common Names

Currant Flea Beetle(1)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Blepharida rhois (Forster)

Orig. Comb: Chrysomela rhois Forster 1771

Size

6-7 mm

Identification

highly variable:

Range

e US to UT / Mex. (2)(3)

Season

mostly: Mar-Sept (BG data)

Food

hosts: currant, sumac (Rhus, Anacardiaceae), skunkbrush(1)(4)

Life Cycle

on skunkbush sumac (Rhus trilobata, Anacardiaceae

Works Cited

1.	Garden Insects of North America : The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs (Princeton Field Guides) Whitney Cranshaw. 2004. Princeton University Press.

2.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.

3.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

4.	Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada Clark et al. 2004. Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.

Contributed by tom murray on 21 December, 2005 - 5:29pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 February, 2017 - 6:18pm

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