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Species Hornaltica bicolorata

Hornaltica bicolorata (Horn) - Hornaltica bicolorata Hornaltica bicolorata (Horn) - Hornaltica bicolorata
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 Alticini (Flea Beetles)
No Taxon (Crepidodera Genus Group)
Genus Hornaltica
Species bicolorata (Hornaltica bicolorata)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hornaltica bicolorata (Horn)
Orig. Comb: Diphaulaca bicolorata Horn, 1889
Numbers
monotypic genus (1)
Size
2.0 mm (Horn 1889),(1)
Range
e US (TX-FL-NJ-MI) - Map (2)(3)
Season
Mar-Aug (1)
Food
asso. w/ copperleaf (Acalypha, Euphorbiaceae), including Acalypha virginica (4),(1), photo, range
Remarks
uncommon (3)
Print References
Horn, G.H. 1889. A synopsis of the Halticini of Boreal America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 16: 163-320.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.Leaf and Seed Beetles of South Carolina
Janet Ciegler. 2007. Clemson University.
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)
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.