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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) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Mantura » Mantura floridana

Species Mantura floridana

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Mantura floridana - female Mantura ex Polygonum scandens - Mantura floridana Oxalis dillenii leafminer redux - Mantura floridana Beetle - Mantura floridana Beetle - Mantura floridana Mantura floridana Mantura floridana Leaf mines on Jumpseed, Persicaria (Polygonum) virginiana - Mantura floridana
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 Mantura
Species floridana (Mantura floridana)
Explanation of Names
Mantura floridana Crotch 1873
Range
widely dist. (CA-FL-NF-AB) - Map (1)(2), mostly e. NA to c. TX
Food
Normally feeds on dock (Rumex spp., Polygonaceae); adults have also been reared from larvae mining leaves of climbing false buckwheat (Fallopia scandens, Polygonaceae) (Eiseman 2014).
Life Cycle
larvae are leaf miners
Print References
Crotch, G.R. 1873. Materials for the study of the Phytophaga of the United States. Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philadelphia. 25: 19-83.
Eiseman, C.S. 2014. New host records and other notes on North American leaf-mining Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera). The Coleopterists Bulletin 68(3):351-359.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
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)
Contributed by tom murray on 1 October, 2008 - 6:11pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 29 June, 2024 - 12:01pm

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