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Species Psylliodes affinis - Potato Flea Beetle

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Potato Flea Beetle - Psylliodes affinis Utah-Coleo - Psylliodes affinis Potato Flea Beetle - Psylliodes affinis Unknown - Psylliodes affinis Psylliodes affinis? - Psylliodes affinis Psylliodes affinis Psylliodes affinis Alticini - Psylliodes affinis

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 Alticini (Flea Beetles)
Genus Psylliodes
Species affinis (Potato Flea Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Psylliodes affinis (Paykull 1799)

Size

2‒3 mm(1)

Identification

adult habitus & male genitalia(2)

Range

native to the Palaearctic (Europe & Siberia)(2), adventive and established in NS‒ON & ne.US(3)(4)

Season

adults emerge in Aug-Sep(1)

Food

hosts: various Solanaceae(2), minor pest of cultivated potato & tomato(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: NY 1968 (Wheel­er & Hoebeke 1983)

Print References

Wheel­er A.G, Jr; Hoebeke E.R. (1983) New re­cords of a Palearctic flea be­et­le, Psyl­liodes affinis, in eas­tern North America (Col­eop­tera: Chrysomelidae). Pro­c. En­t. Soc. Was­h. 85: 594‒597 (Full text)

Works Cited

1.Agricultural insect pests of temperate regions and their control
Hill D.S. 1987. Cambridge Univ Press. 659 pp.
2.Polish Biodiversity Information Network • Coleoptera Poloniae
3.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
4.New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Megalopodidae and Chrysomelidae
Webster R.P., Lesage L., Demerchant I. 2012. Zookeys 179: 321-348.
Contributed by Boris Büche on 13 June, 2007 - 11:08am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 February, 2025 - 1:40pm

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