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Genus Hemisphaerota

Palmetto Tortoise Beetle - Hemisphaerota cyanea

Near Long Pine Key- ENP - Hemisphaerota cyanea

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 Cassidinae (Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines)

Tribe Hemisphaerotini

Genus Hemisphaerota

Explanation of Names

Hemisphaerota Chevrolat in Dejean 1836

Numbers

a single species in our area(1), 9 spp. total(2)

Range

se. US (KY-FL-MS-TX), West Indies (esp. Cuba) and Brazil(2)

Food

hosts: various palms (Arecaceae)(2)

Works Cited

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

2.	Cassidinae of the world - an interactive manual (by Lech Borowiec and Jolanta Świętojańska)

Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 5 December, 2004 - 8:43am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 29 March, 2013 - 8:26am

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