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Genus Epitrix - Nightshade Flea Beetles

Representative Images

Tiny Beetles - Epitrix fuscula Epitrix subcrinita - female Epitrix tuberis - male Epitrix - Epitrix cucumeris Epitrix fuscula? - Epitrix fuscula tiny black beetle - Epitrix fuscula Galerucinae - Epitrix Epitrix fuscula on Eggplant - Epitrix fuscula

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 Epitrix (Nightshade Flea Beetles)

Other Common Names

Hairy Flea Beetles

Explanation of Names

Epitrix Foudras in Mulsant 1859

Numbers

12 spp. in our area(1), >100 total(2)

Range

nearly worldwide(2); a few have become invasive in Europe on potatoes

Print References

Deczynski, A. M. (2016). Morphological systematics of the nightshade flea beetles Epitrix Foudras and Acallepitrix Bechyné (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) in America North of Mexico. Unpublished Master of Science thesis 2479. Clemson University, Clemson, SC. ix + 175 pp. (3)

Internet References

Taxon page(4)

Works Cited

1.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
2.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.
3.Morphological Systematics of the Nightshade Flea Beetles Epitrix Foudras and Acallepitrix Bechyné ...
Deczynski AM. 2016. Clemson University.
4.[Online] Guide to Palearctic flea beetle genera, by Alexander S. Konstantinov and Natalia J. Vanderberg
Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 5 June, 2006 - 6:36pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 9 August, 2025 - 10:47am

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