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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Longitarsus Genus Group » Glyptina

Genus Glyptina

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
little jumping beetle - Glyptina Coleoptera - Glyptina Unknown tiny beetle - Glyptina Glyptina Flea Beetle - Glyptina Chrysomelidae, Glyptina sp. - Glyptina Chrysomelidae - Glyptina Chrysomelidae - Glyptina
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 Galerucinae (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles)
Tribe Alticini (Flea Beetles)
No Taxon (Longitarsus Genus Group)
Genus Glyptina
Explanation of Names
Glyptina J.L. LeConte 1859
Numbers
15 spp. in our area(1)
Range
N. Amer. to C. Amer. - Map (2)(3)
Food
most feed on Euphorbiaceae(2)(4)
Remarks
Genus needs revision.
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
2.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.
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 Jim McClarin on 26 October, 2007 - 11:57pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 August, 2023 - 12:34pm

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