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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) » Eumolpinae » Adoxini » Section Leprotites » Demotina » Demotina modesta

Species Demotina modesta

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Works Cited
Beetle - Demotina modesta Chrysomelidae ? - Demotina modesta Leaf Beetle - Demotina modesta Chrysomelid - Demotina modesta Leaf beetle June 14 - Demotina modesta small brown beetle - Demotina modesta Fuzzy Little Beetle on Winged Sumac - Demotina modesta Leaf 5 - Demotina modesta
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 Adoxini
No Taxon (Section Leprotites)
Genus Demotina
Species modesta (Demotina modesta)
Explanation of Names
Demotina modesta Baly 1874
Size
2.8-3.1 mm (1)
Identification
Note teeth on pronotal margin:
Range
adventive in se US (MD-FL to OK-TX) - Map (2)(3)(4)(5), Native to Japan & Korea
Food
on oaks (Quercus)(3)
See Also
Xanthonia - 20 Nearctic spp.
- Range: e. NA to AZ
Works Cited
1.Leaf and Seed Beetles of South Carolina
Janet Ciegler. 2007. Clemson University.
2.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
3.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.
4.Texas A&M University Insect Collection (TAMUIC)
5.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by v belov on 19 June, 2010 - 3:23pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn
Last updated 16 May, 2022 - 11:14am

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