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Genus Metaparia

Metaparia mandibuloflexa Sublett, Schultz, and Cook - Metaparia mandibuloflexa

Metaparia mandibuloflexa Sublett, Schultz, and Cook - Metaparia mandibuloflexa - male

Metaparia clytroides Crotch - Metaparia clytroides - female

Metaparia opacicollis? - Metaparia opacicollis

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 Eumolpini

No Taxon (Section Iphimeites)

Genus Metaparia

Explanation of Names

Metaparia Crotch 1873

Numbers

3 spp. n. of Mex. (1), (9 total) (2), plus 2 undescribed spp. identified by Schultz (1970)(3)

Range

US spp: AZ-TX, KS (1)

Food

Adults are abundant on trees and shrubs but seem to prefer Mesquite (Prosopis, Fabaceae) (2)

Remarks

Marked sexual dimorphism (2)

Print References

Crotch, G.R. 1873. Materials for the study of the phytophaga of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 25: 19-83.

Schultz, W.T. 1970. The Eumolpinae of America north of Mexico with revisions of selected genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. The Ohio State University, Columbus. 342 pp.

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.

2.	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.

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.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 25 February, 2009 - 3:08pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 8 January, 2017 - 11:40pm

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