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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) » Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines (Cassidinae) » Chalepini » Microrhopala » Goldenrod Leaf Miner (Microrhopala vittata)

Species Microrhopala vittata - Goldenrod Leaf Miner

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

Goldenrod Leaf Miner - Microrhopala vittata

Microrhopala vittata ? - Microrhopala vittata

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 Cassidinae (Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines)

Tribe Chalepini

Genus Microrhopala

Species vittata (Goldenrod Leaf Miner)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Microrhopala vittata (Fabricius)

Orig. Comb: Hispa vittata Fabricius 1798

Explanation of Names

vittata (L). 'striped' (1)

Numbers

9 spp. n. of Mex. (2)

Identification

The dull reddish stripes on the elytra, the eight-segmented antennae and the smooth (not serrate or toothed) elytral margins distinguish this species(3)

Fairly variable in coloration: specimens from different host plants having different color patterns which has led to a number of synonyms (Comment by Dr. Staines)

Range

widely dist. (CA-GA-NB-BC) (4)(5), though no so. US records reported to BG...

Food

Goldenrod (Solidago, Asteraceae)(6)

Remarks

adults often found crawling among the leaves of goldenrod bunch galls made by Rhopalomyia solidaginis

Internet References

Fact Sheet - E.G. Riley

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

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

3.	Identification guide to the Leaf Beetles of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

4.	Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: Subfamily Cassidinae Barney R.J., Clark S.M., Riley E.G. 2007. J. Kentucky Acad. Sci. 68: 132-144.

5.	Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska

6.	Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada Clark et al. 2004. Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 10 January, 2006 - 5:29pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Matthew Roth, Chuck Entz, v belov
Last updated 28 December, 2016 - 1:22pm

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