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Species Trirhabda schwarzi

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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 Coelomerites)
Genus Trirhabda
Species schwarzi (Trirhabda schwarzi)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trirhabda nigrohumeralis, 1931 Blake (not Schaeffer,1906), Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 79: 30-31.
Trirhabda schwarzi Blake, 1951:324
Explanation of Names
Patronym for coleopterist E. A. Schwarz
Range
AZ to w. TX - Map (1)(2)(3)
Food
Brickellbush - Brickellia californica, B. laciniata (Asteraceae) (4)
Print References
Blake, D.H. 1951. New species of chrysomelid beetles of the genera Trirhabda and Disonycha (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 41(10): 324-328. (Full Text)
Internet References
Type Info - Smithsonian
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.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
3.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
4.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.