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Genus Rhabdopterus

Rhabdopterus praetexus - Rhabdopterus praetextus

Rhabdopterus weisei - Rhabdopterus weisei - male

chrysomelid from Sarracenia pitcherplant bog - Rhabdopterus

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 Eumolpinae

Tribe Eumolpini

No Taxon (Section Iphimeites)

Genus Rhabdopterus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Type species is South American and may not be congeneric with the Nearctic species(1)

Explanation of Names

Rhabdopterus Lefèvre 1877

Numbers

8 spp. in our area(2), ~70 total(1)

Identification

see (3)

Range

e.US to S.America(1); in our area, 3 spp. widespread in the east, remaining spp. restricted to TX, FL or se. US(2)

Food

notable hosts: Quercus, Smilax, Celtis, Vitis(1)

Print References

Barber H.S. (1943) Notes on Rhabdopterus in the United States (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 38: 111‒120. (Full text)

Works Cited

1.	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.

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

3.	Review of the genus Rhabdopterus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in America north of Mexico Schultz, W.T. 1977. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Vol 70 (6): 968-974.

Contributed by tom murray on 14 January, 2006 - 6:29pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 27 February, 2024 - 9:01pm

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