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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Hemiglyptus

Small metallic beetle on Yerba Santa - Hemiglyptus basalis Small metallic beetle on Yerba Santa - Hemiglyptus basalis Bronze beetle on Yerba Santa #3 - Hemiglyptus basalis Flea beetle - Hemiglyptus basalis beetle - Hemiglyptus basalis Metallic chrysomelid - Hemiglyptus basalis Beetles on Eriodictyon crassifolium - Hemiglyptus basalis Hemiglyptus basalis? - Hemiglyptus basalis
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 Hemiglyptus
Explanation of Names
Hemiglyptus Horn 1889
Numbers
A single NA species + several more in Chile(1)
Range
w. US (OR-CA); Chile(1)
Food
the NA species found on Hydrophyllaceae (Eriodictyon, Hydrophyllum)(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.