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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) » Case-bearing Leaf Beetles (Cryptocephalinae) » Clytrini » Clytrina » Anomoea » Anomoea rufifrons » Anomoea rufifrons mutabilis

Subspecies Anomoea rufifrons mutabilis

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Anomoea rufifrons mutabilis (Lacordaire) - Anomoea rufifrons - male

Anomoea rufifrons mutabilis (Lacordaire) - Anomoea rufifrons

Unknown Beetle - Anomoea rufifrons - female

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 Cryptocephalinae (Case-bearing Leaf Beetles)

Tribe Clytrini

Subtribe Clytrina

Genus Anomoea

Species rufifrons (Anomoea rufifrons)

Subspecies mutabilis (Anomoea rufifrons mutabilis)

Other Common Names

"Red-faced Leaf Beetle" used by Taber & Fleenor (2005), not very suitable as all Anomoea spp have red faces (not to mention countless leaf beetles...). (1)

Explanation of Names

Anomoea rufifrons mutabilis (Lacordaire)

rufifrons (L). 'red forehead' (2)

Numbers

4 spp in genus north of Mexico (3)

2 subspp. described for Anomoea rufifrons

Identification

spmns determined by E.G. Riley:

See also series of specimens collected from Hidalgo Co.

Range

mostly w. 2/3 of TX to Mex. - Map (3)(1)(4)

Season

Feb-Nov in TX (BG data)

Food

asso. w/ Prosopis and Acacia (Fabaceae) (Moldenke 1970)(5), also Sesbania drummondii (6)

Life Cycle

See Taber & Fleenor (2005) HERE (1)

Print References

Moldenke, A.R. 1970. A revision of the Clytrinae of North America north of the Isthmus of Panama (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Stanford University, Stanford. 310 pp.

Works Cited

1.	Invertebrates Of Central Texas Wetlands Stephen Welton Taber, Scott B. Fleenor. 2005. Texas Tech University Press.

2.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

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

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

5.	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.

6.	iNaturalist

Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 9 September, 2008 - 9:39pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 28 August, 2023 - 5:58pm

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