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Species Systena blanda - Palestriped Flea Beetle

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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 Alticini (Flea Beetles)
Genus Systena
Species blanda (Palestriped Flea Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Systena blanda Melsheimer 1847
Identification
in S. elongata yellow stripe on elytron curves inward slightly at the apex, pronotum typically black
Range
QC‒FL to AB‒CA; Mexico - map(1)(2)
Season
mostly Apr‒Sep(2)
Food
Recorded from over 25 plant families; spp. include various weeds, sunflower, alfalfa soybean, potato, tomato, carrot, peanut, corn, oat, cotton, pea, beans, strawberry, watermelon, grape, and pumpkin(3)
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.
Contributed by Ron M. on 14 August, 2008 - 8:41pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 September, 2023 - 8:00pm

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