Genus Bassareus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

Attacked at my computer by this ... this ANIMAL! What it is, please? - Bassareus mammifer

Chrysomelidae, lateral - Bassareus lituratus

Case-bearing Leaf Beetle - Bassareus mammifer - female

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 (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Cryptocephalinae (Case-bearing Leaf Beetles)

Tribe Cryptocephalini

Subtribe Cryptocephalina

Genus Bassareus

Explanation of Names

Bassareus Haldeman 1849

Greek bassaris 'fox'(1)

Numbers

8 spp., all in our area(2)(3)

Identification

front margin of the prothorax sinuous or hooked (unlike in Cryptocephalus), also described as "anterior edge of proepisternum laterally sinuous or toothed, in many specimens difficult to see" (4):

Note also "abdominal sternum 1 of male excavated in middle and with large spine on each side" (4):

Range

Nearctic genus: e. half of the US and adjacent Canada(2)

Remarks

Genus needs revision(2)

Works Cited

1.	Composition of scientific words Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.

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

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

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 6 January, 2006 - 9:27pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Phillip Harpootlian, Bbarnd, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 20 March, 2022 - 11:35am

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