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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) » Criocerinae » Criocerini » Crioceris » Twelve-spotted Asparagus Beetle (Crioceris duodecimpunctata)

Species Crioceris duodecimpunctata - Twelve-spotted Asparagus Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Twelve-spotted Asparagus Beetle - Crioceris duodecimpunctata - male - female

Chrysomelid - Crioceris duodecimpunctata

Crioceris duodecimpunctata (Twelve-spotted Asparagus Beetle) - Crioceris duodecimpunctata

Red Beetle on Packera glabella - Crioceris duodecimpunctata

bug in garden - Crioceris duodecimpunctata

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 Criocerinae

Tribe Criocerini

Genus Crioceris

Species duodecimpunctata (Twelve-spotted Asparagus Beetle)

Other Common Names

Spotted Asparagus Beetle

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Crioceris duodecimpunctata (Linnaeus)

Orig. Comb: Chrysomela duodecimpunctata Linnaeus 1758

Explanation of Names

duodecimpunctata = '12-dotted'

Size

Adult 5-6 mm, larva 7-8 mm(1)

Identification

Range

introduced to NA and now widely dist. (CA-WV-NS-BC) (2)

Native to the entire Palaearctic Region (e. to Korea)(3);

Food

on Asparagus officinalis (Liliaceae) (3)

Life Cycle

2 generations per year(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: MD ca. 1881(2)

Internet References

Species profile(1)

Works Cited

1.	HYPPZ Encyclopédie des ravageurs européens

2.	Introduced Leaf Beetles of the Maritime Provinces, 6: The Common Asparagus Beetle... and the Twelve-Spotted Asparagus Beetle... LeSage, L., E.J. Dobesberger, and C.G. Majka. 2008. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 110(3):602-621.

3.	Borowiec L. (200_-2013) Chrysomelidae: The leaf beetles of Europe and the Mediterranean subregion (checklist and iconography)

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 11 May, 2006 - 5:54pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 12 August, 2015 - 8:11pm

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