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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) » Chrysomelinae » Chrysomelini » Doryphorina » Calligrapha » subgenus Bidensomela (Calligrapha subgenus Bidensomela) » Calligrapha bidenticola

Species Calligrapha bidenticola

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · See Also · Works Cited
Beetle de Amor - Calligrapha bidenticola - male - female Leaf Beetle - Calligrapha bidenticola Leaf Beetle - Calligrapha bidenticola Calligrapha bidenticola Chrysomelidae - Leaf Beetles Calligrapha bidenticola - Calligrapha bidenticola Gold and black striped beetle - Calligrapha bidenticola Red-bodied roundish beetle w/black & white elytra - Calligrapha bidenticola Calligrapha bidenticola
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 Chrysomelinae
Tribe Chrysomelini
Subtribe Doryphorina
Genus Calligrapha
No Taxon (subgenus Bidensomela)
Species bidenticola (Calligrapha bidenticola)
Explanation of Names
Calligrapha bidenticola Brown 1945
Range
e. NA to e. TX (TX-FL-NB-SD) - Map (1)(2)(3)
Food
Hosts: Asteraceae, incl. Ambrosia, Bidens, Coreopsis(4)
See Also
Zygogramma suturalis - easily distinguished by color of the elytral epipleura (the folded ventral part of the elytra), completely dark in C. bidenticola vs with a conspicuous pale median stripe in Z. suturalis. —Jesús Gómez-Zurita, pers. comm. to =v= 14.vi.2013
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
2.New distribution records and biogeography of Calligrapha species in North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae)
Gómez-Zurita J. 2005. Canadian Field-Naturalist 119: 88-100.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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 Ed Riley on 6 March, 2011 - 1:22pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 20 February, 2024 - 5:45pm

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