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Genus Ophraella

Representative Images

Ragweed Beetle - Ophraella communa unknown beetle - Ophraella conferta - female Chrysomelidae, molt - Ophraella americana Mating, Ophraella? - Ophraella communa - male - female Beetle (Melyridae?) - Ophraella Ophraella conferta? - Ophraella Ophraella communa? - Ophraella Chrysomellidae, dorsal - Ophraella americana

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

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

revised in (1)

Explanation of Names

Ophraella Wilcox 1965

Numbers

14 spp. in the genus, all in our area(2)

Identification

see (1)

Range

throughout US and Canada, incl. arctic regions(2)

Food

hosts: Asteraceae(3)

Works Cited

1.A taxonomic monograph of the Nearctic galerucine genus Ophraella Wilcox (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
LeSage L. 1986. Mem. Ent. Soc. Canada 133: 1‒75.
2.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.
3.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 6 July, 2025 - 3:03pm

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