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Genus Oulema

Car leaf beetle - Oulema melanopus Chrysomelidae,  white frothy hardened ?cocoon? - Oulema collaris Chrysomelidae,  white silken ?cocoon? - Oulema collaris Beetle - Oulema melanopus beetle - Oulema melanopus Chrysomelidae - Oulema Oulema variabilis ? - Oulema variabilis - male - female Cereal Leaf Beetle –Oulema melanopus? - Oulema melanopus
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 Criocerinae
Tribe Lemini
Genus Oulema
Explanation of Names
Oulema Des Gozis 1886
Numbers
18 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area (all but the adventive O. (O.) melanopus are in the New World subgenus Hapsidolemoides); many more spp. elsewhere(1)
Identification
revision in(2)
Range
throughout NA and much of the world(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.A revision of the subfamily Criocerinae (Chrysomelidae) of North America north of Mexico.
Richard E. White. 1993. USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD.