Species Calligrapha bidenticola

Classification · Range · Food · See Also · Works Cited

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 bidenticola (Calligrapha bidenticola)

Range

e. NA west to ON-CO-TX(1)

Food

Hosts: Asteraceae, incl. Ambrosia, Bidens, Coreopsis(2)

See Also

Ragweed Leaf Beetle (Zygogramma suturalis)

Works Cited

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

2.	Host Plants of Leaf Beetle Species Occuring in the United States and Canada By Shawn Clark, Douglas LeDoux, Terry Seeno, Edward Riley, Arthur Gilbert, and James Sullivan. 2004.

Contributed by Ed Riley on 6 March, 2011 - 1:22pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 20 October, 2011 - 12:20pm

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