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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles (Scarabaeoidea) » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » May Beetles and Junebugs (Melolonthinae) » Diplotaxini » Diplotaxis

Genus Diplotaxis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles)
Family Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)
Subfamily Melolonthinae (May Beetles and Junebugs)
Tribe Diplotaxini
Genus Diplotaxis
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in(1)
Diplotaxis (wall-rocket) is also a plant genus in the Brassicaceae, native to w. Palaearctic (several spp. introduced into North America)
Explanation of Names
Diplotaxis Kirby 1837
'double arrangement'
Numbers
~100 spp. in our area, ~240 total(2)
Range
N & C America; most diverse in sw US and the central highlands of Mexico(2)
Food
Adults feed on the foliage of various plants(3), larvae of some species may damage seedlings of commercially grown trees
Life Cycle
Adults mostly nocturnal(3)
See Also
Phyllophaga
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Diplotaxis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae), Parts 1 and 2.
Patricia Vaurie. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
2.The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska
Brett C. Ratcliffe & M.J. Paulsen. 2008. University of Nebraska State Museum, Vol 22, 570 pp.
3.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.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 17 February, 2005 - 10:40am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 18 June, 2019 - 1:36pm

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