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Genus Oulema

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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 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)
Identification
revision in White (1993)(2)
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.
2.A revision of the subfamily Criocerinae (Chrysomelidae) of North America north of Mexico.
Richard E. White. 1993. USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 21 January, 2006 - 1:55pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 14 September, 2024 - 10:36am

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