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Genus Miraces

Miraces aeneipennis Jacoby - Miraces aeneipennis

Red & blue-green chrysomelid - Miraces placida

Miraces sp. (Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Galerucini) - Miraces placida

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 Miraces

Explanation of Names

Miraces Jacoby 1888

Numbers

3 spp. in our area, 7 total(1)

Range

so. US (FL, TX, AZ) to C. America & W. Indies(1)

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.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 11 July, 2008 - 10:21am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 31 January, 2013 - 4:13pm

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