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Genus Xanthogaleruca

Representative Images

Not a Weevil - Xanthogaleruca luteola Not a Weevil - Xanthogaleruca luteola Elm leaf beetle - Xanthogaleruca luteola Beetle at blacklight downtown - Xanthogaleruca luteola Trirhabda - Xanthogaleruca luteola Xanthogaleruca luteola? - Xanthogaleruca luteola Beetle ~1cm - Xanthogaleruca luteola Xanthogaleruca luteola

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 Galerucinae (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles)
Tribe Galerucini
No Taxon (Section Atysites)
Genus Xanthogaleruca

Explanation of Names

Xanthogaleruca Laboissière 1934

Numbers

A single (adventive) species in our area(1), ? spp. total

Identification

Adults yellowish to olive green, with a dark stripe along the edge of each elytron, also an hourglass mark and two spots on the pronotum(2)

Range

Palaearctic genus; one sp. now widespread in NA(1)

Internet References

Photos of several life stages

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.Field Guide to Beetles of California
Arthur V. Evans and James N. Hogue. 2006. University of California Press.
Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 23 April, 2007 - 11:29pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 31 January, 2013 - 5:16pm

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