Species Jonthonota nigripes - Blacklegged Tortoise Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited

Tribe Cassidini - Tortoise Beetles ? - Jonthonota nigripes

Jonthonota nigripes (Olivier) - Jonthonota nigripes - male - female

Jonthonota nigripes, just-eclosed handraised from larva with D. guttata, named Orangie - Jonthonota nigripes

Jonthonota nigripes, second-day adult handraised from larva with D. guttata, named Orangie - Jonthonota nigripes

Blacklegged Tortoise Beetle (Jonthonota nigripes)? - Jonthonota nigripes

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 Cassidini (Tortoise Beetles)

Genus Jonthonota

Species nigripes (Blacklegged Tortoise Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Jonthonota nigripes (Olivier 1790)

nigripes 'black-footed'

Size

8-9 mm

Identification

adult reddish-orange with 3 black spots on each elytron; legs mostly black or dark brown, body shape oblong and nearly parallel-sided, elytral margins opaque or translucent but not transparent, surface not highly reflective(1); larva straw-yellow

also scutellum is black

Range

AB-CA to MB-NY-FL / Mex. - Map (2)(3), most records from w. NA

Habitat

fields, meadows, gardens

Food

hosts: morning glory and sweet potato (Convolvulaceae)(4)

Works Cited

1.	The leaf beetles of Alabama Edward Balsbaugh and Kirby Hays. 1972. Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University.

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

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

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 Robin McLeod on 24 March, 2005 - 5:17pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 May, 2023 - 2:18pm

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