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Species Lema nigrovittata

Lema daturaphila or trivittata? - Lema nigrovittata - male - female

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 Lemini

Genus Lema

No Taxon (striped species)

Species nigrovittata (Lema nigrovittata)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Lema nigrovittata (Guérin-Méneville)

Orig. Comb: Crioceris nigrovittata Guérin-Méneville 1844

Syn: Lema notativentris Schaeffer 1919(1920)

Numbers

15 spp. n. of Mex. (1)

Size

5.5 mm (Schaeffer 1920)

Identification

note black head

Det. E. G. Riley, 2012

Range

sw US (s.CA to w.TX, KS-UT) / Mex. - Map (1)(2)

Food

Recorded from var. Solanaceae (3)

Print References

Schaeffer, C. 1919(1920). Synonymical and other notes on some species of the family Chrysomelidae and descriptions of new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 27: 307-340. (Full Text)

Works Cited

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

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

3.	Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada Clark et al. 2004. Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.

Contributed by Ed Riley on 19 May, 2012 - 12:19pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 March, 2023 - 2:46pm

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