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Genus Trichaltica

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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 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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