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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Oedionychis Genus Group » Kuschelina » Kuschelina fimbriata

Species Kuschelina fimbriata

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Works Cited

Kuschelina cf-fimbriata ? - Kuschelina fimbriata

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 (Oedionychis Genus Group)

Genus Kuschelina

Species fimbriata (Kuschelina fimbriata)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Kuschelina fimbriata (Forster, 1771)

Size

5-7 mm(1)

Identification

Dull reddish or brownish, head and pronotum with rather ill defined dark areas of various extent.

Elytra usually pale, with narrowly dark suture only.

Variations:

a vittate form, easily mistaken for a Disonycha sp., but the median elytral vitta always larger than sutural, and lateral.

vittae may fuse, resulting in all dark elytra.

Range

e. coastal states (MA-FL-TX) / Mex. (2)

Food

Host range still unconfirmed (!); published plant records considered accidential (3)

BugGuide observations indicate plantain (Plantago) as a host. It may not be the primary, native one.

See Also

Kuschelina suturella (Say)

- Range: se US

Det. E. G. Riley

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the beetles of the genus Oedionychis occurring in America north of Mexico Blake, Doris H. 1927. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 70 (no. 2672):1–44.

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

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 v belov on 21 November, 2013 - 8:39am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche
Last updated 19 March, 2022 - 1:19pm

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