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Species Oulema simulans

Oulema - Oulema simulans Oulema? - Oulema simulans Oulema simulans (Schaeffer) - Oulema simulans Beetle - Oulema simulans Leaf Beetle - Oulema simulans - male - female Leaf Beetle - Oulema simulans - male - female Beetle - Oulema simulans Oulema simulans (Schaeffer) - Oulema simulans
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 Oulema
No Taxon (subgenus Hapsidolemoides)
Species simulans (Oulema simulans)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Oulema simulans (Schaeffer)
Orig. Comb: Lema simulans Schaeffer 1933
Size
body length: 4.6-6.0 mm (1)
Identification
last antennal segment(s) sometimes pale; vertex (of head) with a distinct longitudinal depression; most of tibia and tarsi brown to red brown. (1)
O. simulans typically bears moderately developed interantennal tubercules (1)
Range
Great Plains (TX-LA-IL-KS) (2)
Season
Jan-Nov (1)
Food
Dayflower - Commelina spp. (Commelinaceae) (3)
Remarks
Type Locality: Esperanza Ranch, Brownsville, Cameron Co., TX
See Also
O. cornuta and O. simulans are very similar in most color and morphological features. Were it not for the leg color characters (O. cornuta, femora red with apices and remainder of legs black; O. simulans, femora red throughout with tibiae red basally, black apically), they would be difficult to separate. (1)
In most spmns of O. simulans the third antennal segment is clearly shorter than is the fourth, but in O. variabilis the third segment is nearly the same length as the fourth antennal segment. (1)
Print References
Schaeffer, C. 1933. Short Studies in the Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 41: 296-325.
Works Cited
1.A revision of the subfamily Criocerinae (Chrysomelidae) of North America north of Mexico.
Richard E. White. 1993. USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD.
2.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
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.