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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 Bidensomela (Calligrapha subgenus Bidensomela) » Calligrapha californica

Species Calligrapha californica

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Calligrapha - Calligrapha californica Chrysomelid - Calligrapha californica Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) - Calligrapha californica Leaf Beetle - Calligrapha californica 4 striped beetle - Calligrapha californica Beetle - Calligrapha californica beetle - Calligrapha californica beetle - Calligrapha californica
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 Bidensomela)
Species californica (Calligrapha californica)
Size
6mm
Identification
The black-headed larvae have a dark brown rotund body twice as wide as the head and three times as long. The adult is a dark beige beetle approximately 6 mm long with 3 black stripes on its back.
Range
throughout n. NA south to GA-IN-CO-CA(1)
Food
Larva feed on beggarticks (Bidens sp.) and possibly other plants.
Remarks
according to the British Columbia Cranberry Growers Association, this is a beneficial species, as it feeds on weeds in cranberry bogs
Works Cited
1.New distribution records and biogeography of Calligrapha species in North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae)
By J. Gómez-Zurita
Contributed by tom murray on 22 December, 2005 - 4:32pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 26 March, 2011 - 11:56am

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