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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

Genus Altica

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

Altica? Possibly the Apple Flea Beetle? - Altica

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

Other Common Names

A. canadensis, Prairie Flea Beetle; A. carinata, Elm Flea Beetle; A. sylvia, Blueberry Flea Beetle

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Haltica Illiger 1801

Explanation of Names

Altica Geoffroy 1762(1); some sources cite O.F. Müller 1764 or Fabricius 1775 [see Furth (1980)]

Numbers

~70 spp. in our area(2), ~300 total

Identification

Difficult to ID to sp., revision is badly needed.

members of this genus generally have an antebasal groove on pronotum(3), but so do members of some other genera

Range

mostly northern and western(2)

Food

hosts include members of at least 10 plant families(2)

Life Cycle

Larva, adult

Remarks

a partial synopsis by H.C. Fall (1920) published in Psyche 27: 101 - 111

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.	Leaf and Seed Beetles of South Carolina Janet Ciegler. 2007. Clemson University.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 27 December, 2005 - 9:12pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, Robert Lord Zimlich, v belov, John Pearson
Last updated 15 September, 2022 - 1:07am

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