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subgenus Bidensomela

Leaf Beetle - Calligrapha bidenticola Ragweed leaf beetle - Calligrapha bidenticola Calligrapha bidentcola or Zygogramma suturalis? - Calligrapha bidenticola Leaf beetle - Calligrapha bidenticola Calligrapha californica coreopsivora on Bidens (Beggar's Ticks), its host plant! - Calligrapha californica Beetle ID [=Calligrapha? bidenticola??] ID Request - Calligrapha bidenticola Chrysomelidae - Leaf Beetles Calligrapha bidenticola - Calligrapha bidenticola Leaf Beetle Calligrapha bidenticola - Calligrapha bidenticola
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
No Taxon subgenus Bidensomela
Explanation of Names
Bidensomela Monrós 1955
Numbers
4 spp. in the subgenus, all in our area(1)
Food
on various Asteraceae(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.