Species Calligrapha californica

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

Ragweed leaf beetle? - Calligrapha californica

Calligrapha californica? - Calligrapha californica

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 Chrysomelinae

Tribe Chrysomelini

Subtribe Doryphorina

Genus Calligrapha

No Taxon (subgenus Bidensomela)

Species californica (Calligrapha californica)

Explanation of Names

Calligrapha californica (Linell 1896)

Identification

The black-headed larvae have a dark brown rotund body twice as wide as the head and three times as long. The adult is a dark beige beetle approximately 6 mm long with 3 black stripes on its back.

Range

throughout n. NA south to GA-IN-CO-CA(1)

Food

Larva feed on beggarticks (Bidens) and possibly other plants

Works Cited

1.	New distribution records and biogeography of Calligrapha species in North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae) Gómez-Zurita J. 2005. Canadian Field-Naturalist 119: 88‒100.

Contributed by tom murray on 22 December, 2005 - 4:32pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 10 May, 2013 - 10:30am

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