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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Psylliodes » Potato Flea Beetle (Psylliodes affinis)

Species Psylliodes affinis - Potato Flea Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Utah-Coleo - Psylliodes affinis Flea Beetle - Psylliodes affinis beetle - Psylliodes affinis beetle - Psylliodes affinis Potato Flea Beetle - Psylliodes affinis Unknown - Psylliodes affinis Unknown - Psylliodes affinis Coleoptera. Chrysomelidae - 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)
Range
adventive and established in most of ne. US and adj. Canada (NB-ON) - Map (2)(3), native to the Palaearctic (Europe & Siberia)(4)
Season
adults emerge in Aug-Sep(1)
Food
hosts: various Solanaceae(4), 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). Pro­ceed­ings of the En­tomolog­ical Society of Was­hington 85(3): 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.New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Megalopodidae and Chrysomelidae
Webster R.P., Lesage L., Demerchant I. 2012. Zookeys 179: 321-348.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.Coleoptera Poloniae
Contributed by Boris Büche on 13 June, 2007 - 11:08am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 13 March, 2022 - 2:55pm

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