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subgenus Allohypericia

Representative Images

Chrysolina auripennis (Say) - Chrysolina auripennis Small, shiny beetle - Chrysolina auripennis Small beetle - Chrysolina schaefferi 3026270 beetle - Chrysolina auripennis beautiful beetle - Chrysolina auripennis Chrysolina auripennis Red Beetle - Chrysolina auripennis Gold-winged leaf beetle? - Chrysolina auripennis

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 Chrysomelinae
Tribe Chrysomelini
Subtribe Doryphorina
Genus Chrysolina
No Taxon subgenus Allohypericia

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

our spp. treated under Pezocrosita Jacobson in(1), but under Allohypericia in(2)

Explanation of Names

Allohypericia J. Bechyné 1950

Numbers

5 spp. in our area(1), 15 total(3)

Range

holarctic: NA & n. Asia(3)

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.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
3.A study on the genus Chrysolina Motsch. 1860, with a checklist of all the described subgenera, species, subspecies, and synonyms
Bieńkowski A.O. 2001. Genus 12: 105-235.
Contributed by v belov on 27 February, 2014 - 1:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 2 July, 2015 - 5:06pm

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