Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Ophraella conferta

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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 Galerucini
No Taxon (Section Schematizites)
Genus Ophraella
Species conferta (Ophraella conferta)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Galeruca conferta LeConte 1865
Explanation of Names
Ophraella conferta (LeConte)
Range
NS‒FL to AB‒MT‒LA(1)
Food
feeds naturally on Solidago spp. (Asteraceae)(2)
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.