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Species Metachroma longicolle

Beetle - Metachroma longicolle Leaf Beetle - Metachroma longicolle Leaf Beetle - Metachroma longicolle Leaf Beetle - Metachroma longicolle Leaf Beetle ? - Metachroma longicolle ? - Metachroma longicolle Metachroma longicolle Jacoby - Metachroma longicolle Metachroma longicolle Jacoby - Metachroma longicolle
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 Eumolpinae
Tribe Typophorini
Genus Metachroma
Species longicolle (Metachroma longicolle)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Metachroma longicolle Jacoby
Orig. Comb: Metachroma longicollis Jacoby 1891
Syn: Metachroma aeneicolle Horn, 1892
Numbers
~40 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Size
2.4 to 3.4 mm (2)
Identification

Det. E. G. Riley, 2009
Range
se US to CO (TX-FL-SC-CO) (SD?) / Mex. - Map (3)(4), mostly e.TX-OK & FL-SC
Life Cycle
coll'ed from Paspalum (Poaceae), also from soybean & cotton (5)
Remarks
Type Locality: San Juan Bautista in Tabasco, Mexico
Print References
Horn, G.H. 1892. The Eumolpini of Boreal America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 29: 195-234.
Jacoby, M. 1891. Biologia Centrali-Americana: Insecta. Coleoptera. Phytophaga (part). Volume VI, Part 1 (Supp.)
Internet References
Horn's Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.A Review of the Beetles of the Genus Metachroma Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Blake, Doris Holmes. 1970. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 57: iii + 111 pp.
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.