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Genus Timarcha

Timarcha intricata .. - Timarcha intricata

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 Chrysomelinae

Genus Timarcha

Explanation of Names

Timarcha Latreille 1829

Numbers

2 spp. in our area (both in the nearctic subg. Americanotimarcha Jolivet 1948)(1), ~70 spp. in 4 subgenera total(2)

Identification

flightless, rather tenebrionid-like beetles(1)

Range

mostly Mediterranean; in our area, w. NA (BC‒CA‒MT)(1)

Food

hosts: Rosaceae, Ericaceae(1); West Coast species feed on tender leaves of strawberry and bramble bushes(3)

Remarks

The size/color/punctation characters reported to distinguish the 2 spp. recognized in our area "are so variable and overlapping that I sometimes doubt that there is more than [one] species [...] Very dark color and less coarse punctation is supposedly characteristic of T. intricata." ‒S.M. Clark, pers. comm. to =v=, 11.viii.2010

sole member of the tribe Timarchini Motschulsky 1860

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.	BioLib.cz

3.	Interrelationship Between Insects and Plants Pierre Jolivet. 1998. CRC Press.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 17 December, 2007 - 5:20pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 24 January, 2024 - 8:38pm

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