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Genus Oulema

Oulema - Oulema simulans beetle - Oulema melanopus Cereal Leaf Beetle larva - Oulema melanopus A Black Beetle with a Brown Head - Oulema Chrysomelidae eggs on Spiderwort - Oulema collaris Chrysomelidae, white frothy hardened ?cocoon? - Oulema collaris Oulema variabilis R. White - Oulema variabilis Beetle - Oulema
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)
Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
Subfamily Criocerinae
Tribe Lemini
Genus Oulema
Explanation of Names
Oulema Des Gozis 1886
Numbers
18 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area (all but the adventive O. (O.) melanopus are in the New World subgenus Hapsidolemoides); many more spp. elsewhere(1)
Range
throughout NA and much of the world(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.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 21 January, 2006 - 1:55pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 15 March, 2013 - 5:09pm

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