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Genus Plagiodera

leaf beetle - Plagiodera versicolora Leaf beetles on Salix - Plagiodera arizonae Plagiodera thymaloides Stål - Plagiodera thymaloides Beetle - Plagiodera versicolora chrysomelid 3 - Plagiodera versicolora Chrysomelid? - Plagiodera californica small green beetle - Plagiodera versicolora Plagiodera versicolora
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 Chrysomelina
Genus Plagiodera
Explanation of Names
Plagiodera Chevrolat 1836
Greek 'oblique-necked'(1)
Numbers
4 spp. (incl. one adventive) in 3 subgenera in our area, 7 subgenera total(2)
Range
nearly worldwide; in our area, the adventive P. versicolora widespread in ne. NA (to MB & NC), the native spp. in sw. US (CO-TX-CA)(2)
Food
in our area, P. thymaloides on Xylosma flexuosa, the rest on Populus & Salix(2)
Works Cited
1.Composition of scientific words
Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.
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.
Contributed by tom murray on 8 June, 2006 - 8:04pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 11 April, 2012 - 11:49am

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