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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Graphops simplex

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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 Graphops
Species simplex (Graphops simplex)
Explanation of Names
Graphops simplex LeConte, 1884
Numbers
18 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Range
sc US (TX-MS-KS) - Map (1)(GBIF), mostly TX
Food
evening primrose (Oenothera, Onagraceae) (2)
Remarks
Type Locality: Lavaca County, Texas
Print References
LeConte, J.L. 1884. Short studies of North American Coleoptera. Transactions of the American. Entomological Society 12: 1–32.
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.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.