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Genus Metrionella

Mating, Metrionella bilimeki? - Metrionella bilimeki - male - female

Metrionella bilimeki? - Metrionella bilimeki

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 Cassidinae (Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines)

Tribe Cassidini (Tortoise Beetles)

Genus Metrionella

Explanation of Names

Metrionella Spaeth 1932

Numbers

A single species in our area, 12 spp. total(1)(2)

Range

Neotropical genus ranging into se. AZ(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.	Cassidinae of the world - an interactive manual (by Lech Borowiec and Jolanta Świętojańska)

Contributed by v belov on 31 May, 2011 - 2:10pm
Last updated 9 April, 2013 - 9:11pm

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