Genus Calligrapha

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Calligrapha multipunctata (Say) - Calligrapha multipunctata

Zygogramma suturalis - Ragweed Leaf Beetle - Calligrapha bidenticola

Calligrapha multipunctata ? - Calligrapha multipunctata

3013629 Calligrapha - Calligrapha philadelphica

Zygogramma conjuncta pallida? - Calligrapha multipunctata

Calligrapha diversa? - Calligrapha diversa

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 Chrysomelinae

Tribe Chrysomelini

Subtribe Doryphorina

Genus Calligrapha

Explanation of Names

Calligrapha Chevrolat in Dejean 1836

from kallos ‘beauty’ + graphein ‘write’

Numbers

38 spp. and sspp. in 4 subgenera in our area, >80 total(1), 30 in Canada

Identification

Key to species of Atlantic Canada in(2)

Range

throughout NA to Argentina(3)

Life Cycle

Calligrapha is one of the few examples of animals with several obligate unisexual, female‐only species. (Gómez‐Zurita & Cardoso, 2019)

Print References

Gómez‐Zurita, J., & A. Cardoso. 2019. Phylogeographic assessment of mtDNA paraphyly and the evolution of unisexuality in Calligrapha (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research (Abstract)

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 key to Calligrapha species of Atlantic Canada

3.	New distribution records and biogeography of Calligrapha species in North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae) Gómez-Zurita J. 2005. Canadian Field-Naturalist 119: 88-100.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 11 July, 2020 - 5:10pm

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