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Genus Tricholochmaea

Representative Images

Chrysomelid 9 - Tricholochmaea Tricholochmaea cavicollis? - Tricholochmaea cavicollis Tricholochmaea decora (Say) - Tricholochmaea decora Unknown Beetle - Tricholochmaea Tricholochmaea rufosanguinea? - Tricholochmaea Galerucinae - Tricholochmaea Tricholochmaea Tricholochmaea

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 Galerucini
No Taxon (Section Atysites)
Genus Tricholochmaea

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

sometimes treated as a subgenus of Pyrrhalta

Explanation of Names

Tricholochmaea Laboissière 1932
'hairy Lochmaea'

Numbers

~13 spp. in our area(1)

Range

Holarctic + Indonesia(1)

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.