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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Altica Genus Group » Altica » Altica knabii

Species Altica knabii

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

flea beetle emerging from dried stems (with fruit) of Oenothera villosa - Altica knabii

Altica? on evening primrose - Altica knabii

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 (Altica Genus Group)

Genus Altica

Species knabii (Altica knabii)

Explanation of Names

Altica knabii Blatchley 1910

patronym for Frederick Knab (1865–1918) was an artist and entomologist most noted for his oil paintings and illustrations and his work with coleopterous and dipterous insects.

Size

3-3.5 mm(1)

Range

e US (NY-FL to WI-TX)(2)

Habitat

Occurs on low herbs in damp sandy localities(1)

Season

May-Sept(1)

Food

larvae and adults on common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis, Onagraceae)(3)

See Also

Altica texana Schaeffer

- Range: TX

Det. E. G. Riley, 2009

From fuscoaenea this may be at once separated by the much longer, more parallel and less convex elytra, which are at the same time less shining, more strongly alutaceous and much more finely punctuate on basal half. The thorax is wider, with deeper ante-basal impression. (1)

Print References

Blatchley, W.S. 1910. An illustrated and descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana, with bibliography and descriptions of new species. The Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis. 1385 pp.

Works Cited

1.	An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Blatchley, W. S. 1910. Indianapolis,Nature Pub. Co.

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

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 Ed Riley on 24 December, 2009 - 5:36pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 September, 2022 - 3:07pm

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