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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines (Cassidinae) » Ischyrosonychini » Physonota » Arizona Tortoise Beetle (Physonota arizonae)

Species Physonota arizonae - Arizona Tortoise Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Cassidinae - Physonota arizonae Physonota arizonae? - Physonota arizonae Interesting big tortoise beetle - Physonota arizonae Interesting big tortoise beetle - Physonota arizonae Interesting big tortoise beetle - Physonota arizonae The golden phase - Physonota arizonae The two color phases - Physonota arizonae The mature form - Physonota arizonae
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 Cassidinae (Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines)
Tribe Ischyrosonychini
Genus Physonota
Species arizonae (Arizona Tortoise Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Physonota arizonae Schaeffer 1925
Range
AZ (Sta Catalina Mts) to Mexico(1)
Food
hosts: Franserica ambrosioides, Gaertneria xanthocarpa (Asteraceae)(1)
Remarks
color variation discussed here
Works Cited
1.Cassidinae of the world - an interactive manual (by Lech Borowiec and Jolanta Świętojańska)
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 28 September, 2006 - 12:11pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 26 April, 2012 - 5:59am

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