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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 Cassidinae (Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines)

Tribe Ischyrosonychini

Genus Physonota

Species calochroma (Geiger Tree Tortoise Beetle)

Other Common Names

Geiger Tortoise Beetle

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eurypepla Boheman 1854 is treated as separate genus (4 spp.: Florida Keys, West Indies, & Yuacatan) in(1)

Explanation of Names

Physonota (Eurypepla) calochroma floridensis (Blake 1965)(2)

Numbers

2 sspp.(1)

Range

our subspecies is endemic to so. FL(2)(3)

Food

Geiger tree (Cordia sebestena, Boraginaceae)(4)

Works Cited

1.	Cassidinae of the world - an interactive manual (by Lech Borowiec and Jolanta Świętojańska)

2.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.

3.	A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida

4.	Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada Clark et al. 2004. Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 6 March, 2005 - 4:35pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 April, 2012 - 6:06am

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