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Genus Longitarsus

Can't even guess at this one. - Longitarsus Longitarsus perhaps ? - Longitarsus Tiny Flea Beetle - Longitarsus Flea beetle - Longitarsus Longitarsus suspectus Blatchley - Longitarsus suspectus - male Red flea beetle - Longitarsus varicornis Ground beetle? - Longitarsus Alticini - maybe Longitarsus? - Longitarsus
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 (Longitarsus Genus Group)
Genus Longitarsus
Explanation of Names
Longitarsus Berthold 1827
Numbers
46 described and many undescribed spp. in our area (of which 10 introduced), ~500 worldwide(1)
Identification
Native nearctic fauna needs revision(1)

Some relevant literature: (2) (3) (4)
Range
Nearly worldwide, ~half of the spp. in the Palaearctic; in our area, across the US & so. Canada(1)
Food
Larvae feed on roots of herbaceous plants in a half dozen families(1)
About the hosts of native spp., not much is known (Asteraceae, Boraginaceae, Verbenaceae + Scrophulariaceae)
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.Notes on European Longitarsus species introduced in North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
LeSage, L. 1988. The Canadian Entomologist 120: 1133-1145.
3.A New Longitarsus Latreille (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) Species from the Greater Washington, DC Region...
Konstantinov, A.S. 2025. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 79(1): 27-36.
4.Discovery and lectotype designation of Longitarsus californicus (Motschulsky) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)
Konstantinov, A.S., V. Savitsky, and I. Zabaluev. 2024. ZooKeys 1209: 231-244.