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Genus Mantura

Flea Beetle - Mantura chrysanthemi Leaf beetle 10.05.29 (3) - Mantura floridana Mantura floridana Crotch - Mantura floridana Mantura floridana Crotch - Mantura floridana Mantura chrysanthemi - female Oxalis dillenii leafminer redux - Mantura floridana Chrysomelidae Chrysolina browni? Flea beetle - Mantura Chrysomelidae Chrysolina browni? Flea beetle - Mantura
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)
Genus Mantura
Explanation of Names
Mantura Stephens 1831
Numbers
2 spp. (of which one adventive) in our area, ~20 spp. total(1)
Range
mostly Palaearctic; in our area, one widespread native sp. + one adventive (ne. US & se. Canada)(1)
Food
Rumex (Polygonaceae); larvae mine leaves(1) [mines on Rumex acetosa in UK(2)]
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.
2.British leafminers
Contributed by tom murray on 21 November, 2006 - 8:10pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 15 May, 2013 - 12:53pm

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