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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Criocerinae » Lemini » Lema

Genus Lema

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Food · Works Cited
Chrysomelid - Lema confusa EEEW! - Lema Leaf Beetle - Lema trivittata - male - female Lema daturaphila - Three-lined Potato Beetle - Lema daturaphila Three-Lined Potato Beetle - Lema daturaphila Lema daturaphila? - Lema Lema balteata? - Lema balteata Lema trabeata
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 Criocerinae
Tribe Lemini
Genus Lema
Explanation of Names
Lema Fabricius 1798
Numbers
at least 14 spp. in our area(1), many hundreds worldwide(2)
Food
mostly on Solanaceae and Asteraceae, but also recorded from other plants(3)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
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.A revision of the subfamily Criocerinae (Chrysomelidae) of North America north of Mexico.
Richard E. White. 1993. USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD.
Contributed by tom murray on 19 June, 2005 - 11:29am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 15 March, 2013 - 5:03pm

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