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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Oedionychis Genus Group » Capraita

Genus Capraita

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

Capraita sexmaculata (Illiger) - Capraita sexmaculata

Capraita nigrosignata (Schaeffer) - Capraita nigrosignata

flea beetle - Capraita subvittata - male

Oedionychis Genus Group? - Capraita flavida

Capraita circumdata? - Capraita circumdata

leaf or flea beetle? - Capraita nigrosignata

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Galerucinae (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles)

Tribe Alticini (Flea Beetles)

No Taxon (Oedionychis Genus Group)

Genus Capraita

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Chloephaga Weise, 1899 (homonym, replaced)

Explanation of Names

Capraita J. Bechyné 1957

Numbers

16 spp. in our area(1), 60 spp. total(2)

Identification

swollen metatarsal claws (also found in Kuschelina); key to species in (3)

Range

New World(2)

Remarks

The neotropical genus Walterianella J. Bechyné, 1955 is of doubtful delimitation vs. Capraita, and the genera may have to be united under the former name.

The species durangoensis (Jacoby, 1892) was recently transferred to Walterianella. See there.

Still missing in guide (Nov.2018):

C. indigoptera (LeConte, 1878) (FL,GA)

C. saltatra (Blatchley, 1923) (FL)

C. spilonota (Blake, 1927) (FL)

See Also

Ora

Works Cited

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

2.	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.

3.	A revision of the beetles of the genus Oedionychis occurring in America north of Mexico Blake, Doris H. 1927. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 70 (no. 2672):1–44.

Contributed by tom murray on 22 December, 2005 - 9:48pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 6 November, 2018 - 8:10am

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