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Species Cyclotrypema furcata

Cyclotrypema furcata (Olivier) - Cyclotrypema furcata Cyclotrypema furcata (Olivier) - Cyclotrypema furcata Leaf Beetle - Cyclotrypema furcata Cyclotrypema furcata (Olivier) - Cyclotrypema furcata Cyclotrypema furcata Cyclotrypema furcata Cyclotrypema furcata
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 Diabroticina
No Taxon (Section Cerotomites)
Genus Cyclotrypema
Species furcata (Cyclotrypema furcata)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cyclotrypema furcata (Olivier)
Orig. Comb: Galeruca furcata Olivier 1808
Numbers
Monotypic genus (1)
Range
c. to s. TX (Bell Co. to Brownsville) and ne. Mex. - Map (1)(2)(3)
Food
asso. w/ straggler daisy - Calyptocarpus vialis (Asteraceae), also reported from Solanum spp. (Solanaceae) (4)(BG data)
Remarks
Once could be collected in the millions at the Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Brownsville, Cameron Co., TX but not seen during the intensive 2008-2010 survey period. (E.G. Riley, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2010)
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.Faunistic patterns of leaf beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) within elevational and temporal gradients in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Sánchez-Reyes, U.J., S. Niño-Maldonado, L. Barrientos-Lozano, S.M. Clark, and R.W. Jones. 2016. ZooKeys 611: 11-56.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada
Clark et al. 2004. Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.