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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) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Crepidodera Genus Group » Crepidodera

Genus Crepidodera

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited

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 Galerucinae (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles)

Tribe Alticini (Flea Beetles)

No Taxon (Crepidodera Genus Group)

Genus Crepidodera

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

revised in(1)

Explanation of Names

Crepidodera Chevrolat in Dejean 1836

Greek crepis, -idos 'base' + dere 'neck' (2) (apparently refers to the basal depression on the pronotum)

Numbers

16 spp. in our area(3), >40 total(4)

Identification

Color metallic (blue/green/bronze), usually very shiny; sometimes pronotum and elytra differently colored (4)

Range

Holarctic, with some representation in Oceania, China, and South America(4)

Habitat

Larvae are subterranean(5)

Food

hosts: Salicaceae, Rosaceae(5)

Works Cited

1.	The systematics and biology of the flea beetle genus Crepidodera Chevrolat (Coleoptera:Chrysomelidae) in America north of Mexico Parry R.H. 1986. Insecta Mundi 1: 156-195.

2.	Composition of scientific words Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.

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

4.	[Online] Guide to Palearctic flea beetle genera, by Alexander S. Konstantinov and Natalia J. Vanderberg

5.	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 19 October, 2006 - 3:50pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 January, 2019 - 5:37pm

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