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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Ravenous Leaf Beetles (Orsodacnidae)

Family Orsodacnidae - Ravenous Leaf Beetles

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
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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 Orsodacnidae (Ravenous Leaf Beetles)
Other Common Names
Orsodacnid Leaf Beetles
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sometimes treated as a subfamily of the Chrysomelidae
Explanation of Names
Orsodacnidae C.G. Thomson 1859
Numbers
the smallest family of Chrysomeloidea, with 4 spp. in 3 genera in our area, 40 spp. in 3 genera total, arranged into 2 subfamilies(1)(2)
Identification
All tibiae with 2 apical spurs, front of head without X-shaped grooves, head lacking temples, evenly narrowed from behind eyes to neck; apex of mandible unidentate or bidentate, mesonotum without stridulatory file. Pronotum without sensorial setae.
Range
Orsodacne is Holarctic, the other 2 genera are Neotropical ranging into sw. US (TX-CA)(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification...
Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 25 March, 2005 - 12:57pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 31 July, 2021 - 1:51pm

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