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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Colaspis

Leaf Beetle - Colaspis brunnea Colaspis brownsvillensis Blake - Colaspis brownsvillensis Chrysomelidae, lateral - Colaspis suilla Colaspis - Colaspis brunnea Chrysomelidae Colaspis sp - Colaspis viriditincta Small Brown Beetle - Colaspis brunnea Colaspis sp. for confirmation - Colaspis Colaspis brunnea
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 Colaspis
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
needs further subdivision(1)
Explanation of Names
Colaspis Fabricius 1801
Numbers
28 spp. in our area(1), >200 total (New World's largest genus of Eumolpinae)
Range
New World (mostly neotropical) incl. most of NA (except CA and the Pacific Northwest)(1)
Food
Some adults appear to be polyphagous; others, host-specific(1)
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.