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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Eumolpinae » Eumolpini » Section Iphimeites » Colaspis » Colaspis hesperia

Species Colaspis hesperia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Colaspis hesperia Blake - Colaspis hesperia

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Eumolpinae

Tribe Eumolpini

No Taxon (Section Iphimeites)

Genus Colaspis

Species hesperia (Colaspis hesperia)

Explanation of Names

Colaspis hesperia Blake 1974

hesperia (G). 'western' (1)

Numbers

26 spp. n. of Mex. (2)

Size

4.5-6.2 mm (3)

Range

AZ-TX / Mex (2)

Season

Jun-Jul (BG data)

Food

Alfalfa, lima beans, cotton and grape (3)

Remarks

Type Locality: Pina County, Arizona, 26 July 1934, T. P. Cassidy, on cotton. (3)

See Also

A close relative of C. brunnea, but differs from brunnea in being generally a little larger with longer elytra and more coarsely punctate pronotum. It is yellow brown without dark margins or all dark undersurface, only the sides of the abdomen are frequently darker. The antennae as in brunnea are pale with only the last joint dark. The aedeagus is with a very wide tip and angulate, not rounded, before the tip, as in brunnea.

- Range: e. N. Amer.

Print References

Blake, D.H. 1974. The costate species of Colaspis in the United States (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Smithsonian contributions to zoology. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. 181 pp.

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.

3.	The costate species of Colaspis in the United States Blake, D.H. 1974. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. 181 pp.

Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 15 June, 2011 - 3:03pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 10 October, 2021 - 3:51pm

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