Genus Trichaltica

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited

Glyptina cyanipennis - Trichaltica scabricula

Trichaltica tibialis? - Trichaltica tibialis

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 Galerucinae (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles)

Tribe Alticini (Flea Beetles)

No Taxon (Trichaltica Genus Group)

Genus Trichaltica

Explanation of Names

Trichaltica Harold 1876

Numbers

2 spp. in our area + over 30 spp. in the Neotropics(1)

Range

1 sp. in e. US (OH to TX) + 1 in AZ(1)

Food

nearctic spp. on Oleaceae (Chionanthus, Fraxinus, Ligustrum)(1)

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.

Contributed by v belov on 22 May, 2009 - 12:33pm
Last updated 27 March, 2013 - 8:52pm

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