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For the United States & Canada

Species Altica guatemalensis

Leaf beetles on Alder - Altica guatemalensis  Altica guatemalensis Jacoby - Altica guatemalensis
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 (Altica Genus Group)
Genus Altica
Species guatemalensis (Altica guatemalensis)
Explanation of Names
Altica guatemalensis Jacoby 1884
Range
w. US (CA-NM, WA) to C. Amer. (1)
Food
Hosts are species of alder (Alnus, Betulaceae), including A. oblongifolia(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
2.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.