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Species Walterianella durangoensis

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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 Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
Subfamily Galerucinae (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles)
Tribe Alticini (Flea Beetles)
No Taxon (Oedionychis Genus Group)
Genus Walterianella
Species durangoensis (Walterianella durangoensis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Capraita durangoensis (Jacoby)
Orig. Comb: Oedionychis durangoensis Jacoby 1892
Syn: Walterianella durangoensis (Jacoby)
Identification

Det. E. G. Riley 2009
Range
AZ / Mex (1)
Season
May-Oct (BG data)
Life Cycle
reported from desert willow (Chilopsis linearis, Bignoniaceae) (2)
Remarks
A second Walterianella?

This similar species, also found in AZ, has been tried if it is one known from Mexico - unsuccessfully.
It probably is undescribed, and has even larger eyes, and wider pronotal margin than W. durangoensis.
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.