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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) » Chrysomelinae » Chrysomelini » Doryphorina » Calligrapha

Genus Calligrapha

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Works Cited
Beetle [Calligrapha? californica?? coreopsivora???] ID Request - Calligrapha californica Calligrapha beetle - Calligrapha rowena Calligrapha larva? - Calligrapha Unknown Beetle - Calligrapha californica - male - female Calligrapha ancoralis - female Calligrapha floridana? - Calligrapha Calligrapha multipunctata Calligrapha californica
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(4)
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.
4.Phylogeographic assessment of mtDNA paraphyly and the evolution of unisexuality in Calligrapha (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Gómez‐Zurita J., Cardoso A. 2019. J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res. 57: 561‒579.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 20 February, 2024 - 6:00pm

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