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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) » Galerucini » Section Schematizites » Ophraella

Genus Ophraella

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Print References · Works Cited
Leaf Beetle - Ophraella communa Striped Beetle - Ophraella conferta Ophraella - Ophraella sexvittata Little Brown beetle - Ophraella communa Chrysomelidae, dorsal - Ophraella bilineata Beetle - Ophraella communa leaf beetle - Ophraella conferta Ophraella californiana HOLOTYPE - Ophraella californiana
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 Galerucini
No Taxon (Section Schematizites)
Genus Ophraella
Explanation of Names
Ophraella Wilcox 1965
Numbers
14 spp. in the genus, all in our area (1)
Range
throughout US and Canada, incl. arctic regions (1)
Food
var. Asteraceae (2)
Print References
LeSage L. (1986) A taxonomic monograph of the Nearctic galerucine genus Ophraella Wilcox (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 133: 1-75.
Futuyma D.J. (1991) A new species of Ophraella Wilcox (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Southeastern United States. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 99: 643-653. (Full text)
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.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 Tony DiTerlizzi on 12 May, 2005 - 9:12pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, v belov
Last updated 1 August, 2015 - 10:45am

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