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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Altica caurina

Altica caurina Blake - Altica caurina - male Altica caurina Blake - Altica caurina - male Altica caurina Blake - Altica caurina - male Altica caurina Blake - Altica caurina - male
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 caurina (Altica caurina)
Explanation of Names
Altica caurina Blake, 1936
Range
nw NA (BC-MB, WA-CO) (1)
Food
reported host is shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora (=Potentilla) fruticosa, Rosaceae) (2)
Print References
Blake, D.H. 1936. Altica bimarginata Say, with descriptions of new species and varieties (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 38(2): 13-24.
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.