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subgenus Allohypericia

Chrysomelidae, maybe Chrysolina auripennis - Chrysolina auripennis - male - female Chrysolina schaefferi Chrysomelidae...Chrysolina? - Chrysolina basilaris Chrysolina auripennis (Say) - Chrysolina auripennis Chrysomelidea - Chrysolina schaefferi Chrysomelidae - Chrysolina auripennis beautiful beetle - Chrysolina auripennis Red Beetle - Chrysolina auripennis
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 Chrysolina
No Taxon subgenus Allohypericia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
our spp. treated under Pezocrosita Jacobson in(1), but under Allohypericia in(2)
Explanation of Names
Allohypericia J. Bechyné 1950
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(1), 15 total(3)
Range
holarctic: NA & n. Asia(3)
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.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
3.A study on the genus Chrysolina Motsch. 1860, with a checklist of all the described subgenera, species, subspecies, and synonyms
Bieńkowski A.O. 2001. Genus 12: 105-235.
Contributed by v belov on 27 February, 2014 - 1:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 2 July, 2015 - 5:06pm

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