Genus Microrhopala

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited

Ambrosia Microrhopala - Microrhopala rubrolineata

Microrhopala xerene? - Microrhopala xerene

Goldenrod Leaf Miner - Microrhopala vittata - male - female

Goldenrod Leaf Miner - Microrhopala vittata

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 Cassidinae (Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines)

Tribe Chalepini

Genus Microrhopala

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

revised in (1)

Explanation of Names

Microrhopala Chevrolat in Dejean 1836

'small club'

Numbers

9 spp. in our area, 18 total(2)

Identification

Antenna appearing 8-segmented due to fusion of terminal antennomeres; antenna moderately long to long, filiform to clavate; fore tibia not flattened, broadest subapically, externally without distinct carina; antenna gradually enlarged distally; antennomere 3 shorter than 1 and 2 combined; elytra usually conjointly rounded at apex; vertex of head with sulci variably developed, lateral sulcus when present distant from eye; elytral margins gradually and evenly curved at apex without apical foliaceous expansion or large spines.

Range

across Canada and US south to Columbia(3)

Food

Associated with Asteraceae(3)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the genus Microrhopala (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in America north of Mexico Shawn M. Clark. 1983. Great Basin Naturalist, Vol 43, No 4, pp. 597-618.

2.	Catalog of the hispines of the World

3.	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.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 10 January, 2006 - 5:25pm
Additional contributions by Matthew Roth, Chuck Entz, v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 1 September, 2020 - 2:58pm

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