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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae)

Subfamily Galerucinae - Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Mating - Blepharida rhois - male - female Phyllobrotica sororia Beetle - Diabrotica cristata BeetleTBID05062014FW_0475 - Kuschelina floridana Striped Cucumber Beetles - Acalymma vittatum - male - female Tribe Alticini - Flea Beetles - Altica Systena marginalis - Margined Systena? - Systena flea beetle - Phyllotreta
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)
Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
Subfamily Galerucinae (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Alticinae, now treated as a tribe (Alticini)(1).
Explanation of Names
Galerucinae Latreille 1802
Numbers
By far the largest leaf beetle subfamily, with 13,000 to 15,000 described spp. in >1000 genera of 7 tribes worldwide and ca. 700 spp. in 90 genera of 4 tribes in our area; the flea beetles (Alticini) account for over 60% of the diversity(1)(2).
Range
Worldwide and throughout NA
Food
Most of the galerucines feed on dicots, however some genera may have adapted to monocots. Adults generally feed on pollen and also fresh leaves of their host plants, and the larvae feed on their roots. Many species feed on wild plants, trees and bushes, and many are polyphagous
Remarks
Some are serious agricultural pests, causing damage directly by plant feeding or indirectly by transmitting viruses. Some species have been used in the biological control of weeds.
Print References
Lingafelter S.W., Konstantinov A.S. (2000) The monophyly and relative rank of alticine and galerucine leaf beetles: a cladistic analysis using adult morphological characters. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomol. Scand. 30: 397–416.
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.A Synopsis of the North American Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
John A. Wilcox. 1965. New York State Museum and Science Service.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 27 March, 2005 - 6:10pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 1 March, 2015 - 9:56pm

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