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Genus Cerotoma

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Is this Cerotoma ruficornis? - Cerotoma ruficornis - female Cerotoma trifurcata Beetle - Cerotoma trifurcata Cerotoma trifurcata (Forster) - Cerotoma trifurcata Cerotoma trifurcata? - Cerotoma trifurcata Chrysomelidae- Cerotoma trifurcata - bean leaf beetle? - Cerotoma trifurcata Bean Leaf Beetle - Cerotoma trifurcata Chrysomelidae, frontal - Cerotoma trifurcata

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 Luperini
Subtribe Diabroticina
No Taxon (Section Cerotomites)
Genus Cerotoma

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Syn: Ceratoma (spelling)

Explanation of Names

Cerotoma Chevrolat in Dejean 1836

Numbers

3 spp. n. of Mex. (1) (18 spp. total)

Size

4-9 mm

Range

in our area, one sp. in widely eastern (west to SD-NM) and two are restricted to so./sw. US (FL, TX, AZ) (1)

Works Cited

1.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 Stephen_WV on 10 September, 2004 - 6:12am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 17 September, 2013 - 4:41pm

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