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Species Metrioidea varicornis

Metrioidea varicornis (Leconte) - Metrioidea varicornis

Metrioidea varicornis? - Metrioidea varicornis

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 Galerucinae (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles)

Tribe Luperini

Subtribe Luperina-subtribe

No Taxon (Section Monoleptites)

Genus Metrioidea

Species varicornis (Metrioidea varicornis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Metrioidea varicornis (LeConte)

Orig. Comb: Luperus varicornis LeConte 1868

Numbers

11 spp. n. of Mex. (1)

Size

3 mm (Type) (LeConte 1868)

Range

AZ to w.TX-KS - Map (2)(3)

Season

Jun-Aug (BG data)

Remarks

common at lights

Print References

LeConte, J.L. 1868. New Coleoptera collected on the survey for the extension of the Union Pacific railway, E.D. from Kansas to Fort Craig, New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 2: 49-64. Full text

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

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.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 5 July, 2010 - 7:21pm
Last updated 29 May, 2019 - 3:12pm

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