Genus Calligrapha

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Calligrapha scalaris? - Calligrapha sylvia

Calligrapha Beetle - Calligrapha suturella

Cottonwood Leaf Bettle look-a-like - Calligrapha verrucosa

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

Numbers

38 spp. and sspp. in 4 subgenera in our area (the monotypic subg. Calligramma, a FL endemic, is not yet in the guide), over 80 total(1), 30 in Canada

Identification

Key to species of Atlantic Canada in(2)

Range

throughout NA to Argentina(3)

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.	A key to Calligrapha species of Atlantic Canada

3.	New distribution records and biogeography of Calligrapha species in North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae) By J. Gómez-Zurita

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 27 March, 2011 - 6:27pm

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