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Genus Babia

Babia tetraspilota LeConte - Babia tetraspilota Babia ? - Babia quadriguttata Babia? - Babia quadriguttata Eastern babia - Babia quadriguttata - male - female Chrysomelidae 5 - Babia Babia - female tiny black and red leaf beetle Cryptocephalus quadruplex? - Babia Babia quadriguttata
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 Cryptocephalinae (Case-bearing Leaf Beetles)
Tribe Clytrini
Subtribe Babiina
Genus Babia
Explanation of Names
Babia Chevrolat in Dejean 1836
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, representing 2 subgenera; altogether, numerous spp. in 5 subgenera(1)
Identification

B. tetraspilota | B. quadriguttata
Both collected at the same site in Austin, TX
Range
primarily neotropical group ranging north to MA-ON-WY(1)(2)
B. tetraspilota w.US (CA to NE‒TX) & Mexico
B. quadriguttata e.US (NY‒FL to MN‒NM) & so.ON
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.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.