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Species Altica chalybea - Grape Flea Beetle

Chrysomelidae- Altica chalybea? - grape flea beetle - Altica chalybea

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 chalybea (Grape Flea Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Altica chalybea Illiger 1807

chalybea 'steel-colored'

Range

e. NA to NM (QC‒FL to MN‒NM) - Map (1)(2)

Food

hosts: Vitis spp. (Vitaceae)(3); also found on Parthenocissus quinquefolia(4)

Print References

(5)

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

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.

4.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

5.	Flea beetles of the genus Altica found on grape in Northeastern North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) LeSage, L. 2002. J. Entomol. Soc. Ontario 133: 3-46.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 15 May, 2008 - 8:16am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 3 December, 2023 - 1:05pm

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