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Geiger Tree Tortoise Beetle (Physonota calochroma)
Species
Physonota calochroma
- Geiger Tree Tortoise Beetle
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
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1
)
Explanation of Names
Physonota (Eurypepla) calochroma floridensis
(Blake 1965)
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2
)
Numbers
2 sspp.
(
1
)
Range
our subspecies is endemic to so. FL
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2
)
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3
)
Food
Geiger tree (
Cordia sebestena
, Boraginaceae)
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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