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Genus Hemiphrynus

Alticid on Whiteleaf Oak - Hemiphrynus intermedius Alticini on oak - Hemiphrynus intermedius Flea Beetle - Hemiphrynus intermedius Hemiphrynus intermedius (Jacoby) - Hemiphrynus intermedius Syphrea? - Hemiphrynus Syphrea? - Hemiphrynus Syphrea? - Hemiphrynus
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 (Disonycha Genus Group)
Genus Hemiphrynus
Explanation of Names
Hemiphrynus Horn 1889
Numbers
3 spp. in our area (two described & one un described), several in Mexico(1)(2)
Range
sw. US (AZ to w. TX) / Mex. (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.
2.A review and clarification of the alticine genera Hemiphrynus ... and Phrynocepha
Arthur J. Gilbert. 2011. Insecta Mundi 0200: 1-57, 2011.
Contributed by Ed Riley on 24 December, 2009 - 5:21pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 July, 2016 - 10:08am

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