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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) » Chrysomelinae » Chrysomelini » Chrysomelina » Gastrophysa » Gastrophysa polygoni

Species Gastrophysa polygoni

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Food · Works Cited
Leaf Beetle - Gastrophysa polygoni - female Chrysomelidae - Gastrophysa polygoni - female beetle - Gastrophysa polygoni Some kind of Flea or Leaf beetle 2 - Gastrophysa polygoni Some kind of Flea or Leaf beetle 3 - Gastrophysa polygoni - male - female Gastrophysa polygoni? - Gastrophysa polygoni Gastrophysa polygoni? - Gastrophysa polygoni Green leaf beetle? - Gastrophysa polygoni
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 Chrysomelinae
Tribe Chrysomelini
Subtribe Chrysomelina
Genus Gastrophysa
Species polygoni (Gastrophysa polygoni)
Other Common Names
Knotweed leaf beetle
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Gastrophysa polygoni (Linnaeus)
Orig. Comb: Chrysomela polygoni Linnaeus, 1758
Range
ne NA to BC (KS-WV-NS-BC) - Map (1)(2)(3), mostly: New England to the Dakota, AB, native to Eurasia
Food
hosts: Polygonaceae(4) (knotweeds, wild buckwheat, docks) and a number of unrelated, secondary, or incidental hosts(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
2.Introduced leaf beetles of the Maritime Provinces, 8: Gastrophysa polygoni (Linnaeus) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
L. LeSage & C.G. Majka. 2009. Zootaxa 2047: 48-62.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.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 Lynette Elliott on 11 July, 2005 - 8:52am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 27 March, 2022 - 12:29pm

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