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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) » Chrysomelinae » Chrysomelini » Chrysomelina » Chrysomela » Subgenus Macrolina (Chrysomela Subgenus Macrolina) » Chrysomela knabi

Species Chrysomela knabi

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

spotted beetle on willow at pond edge - Chrysomela knabi

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 Chrysomelinae

Tribe Chrysomelini

Subtribe Chrysomelina

Genus Chrysomela

No Taxon (Subgenus Macrolina)

Species knabi (Chrysomela knabi)

Explanation of Names

Chrysomela knabi Brown 1956

patronym for Frederick Knab (1865-1918)(1)

Numbers

2 sspp. in our area

Range

e US to Rockies (ON-NC to AB-NM) - Map (2)(3)(4) (largely absent from se. US: LA-FL-VA)

Food

hosts: Salicaceae, normally willows (Salix), but also on Populus(5)

See Also

Chrysomela interrupta Fabricius

- Range: se. US

Det. K. Stephan

Print References

Brown W.J. (1956) The New World species of Chrysomela L. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Canadian Entomologist 88: 1-54.

Internet References

Texas Entomology - Mike Quinn 2008

Works Cited

1.	American Entomologists Arnold Mallis. 1971. Rutgers University Press.

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

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

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

5.	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 - 9:39pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 26 April, 2022 - 5:54pm

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