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Superfamily Chrysomeloidea - Long-horned and Leaf Beetles

Longhorned beetle with stowaways - Monochamus scutellatus

Leaf beetle in flower - Prasocuris vittata - female

Whitespotted Sawyer - Monochamus scutellatus

Brown longhorn beetle - Arhopalus productus

Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle Nymph? - Labidomera clivicollis

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)

Numbers

5 families in our area (counting Disteniidae as family), 7 total(1)

Identification

the most recent general treatment in(2)

Works Cited

1.	Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) Bouchard P. et al. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.

2.	Handbook of Zoology. Coleoptera Vol. 3: Morphology and Systematics (Phytophaga) Leschen R.A.B., Beutel R.G. (eds). 2014. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin. 687 pp.

Contributed by Cotinis on 9 January, 2006 - 9:13am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov
Last updated 1 February, 2015 - 9:44pm

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