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Genus Sumitrosis

Chrysomelidae, dorsal - Sumitrosis rosea Beetles mining Strophostyles leiosperma - Sumitrosis ancoroides Cassidinae (Hispine), on Zigzag Goldenrod, larva - Sumitrosis inaequalis Leaf miner from aster leaf - Sumitrosis inaequalis Sumitrosis rosea Sumitrosis rosea Sumitrosis rosea? - Sumitrosis rosea Sumitrosis rosea? - Sumitrosis rosea
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 Sumitrosis
Explanation of Names
Sumitrosis Butte 1969
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, 60 total(1)
Identification
key to species (2)
Range
primarily neotropical (most diverse in the equatorial region); in our area, 3 spp. widespread (all reach Canada but only one reaches the Pacific Coast) + one in se. US (MD-FL-TX)(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of the hispines of the World
2.Revision of the tribe Chalepini of America North of Mexico IV. Genus Sumitrosis Butte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Janardhan G. Butte . 1969. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 12-30 .