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Species Neogalerucella pusilla

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Neogalerucella pusilla

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 Galerucini
No Taxon (Section Atysites)
Genus Neogalerucella (Purple Loosestrife Beetles)
Species pusilla (Neogalerucella pusilla)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Galerucella pusilla (Duftschmid 1825)

Explanation of Names

Neogalerucella pusilla (Duftschmid 1825)

Identification

usually pale, with dark spots on vertex and shoulders. less frequently with pattern like N. calmariensis.
safe recognition (and separation from native species) by male genitalia.

Range

native to, and widespread in the Palaearctic (Europe to China), introduced to NA and now established across Canada & n. US(1)(2)

Food

host: Lythrum salicaria(1)

Remarks

introduced to combat the invasive Lythrum weeds(3)

Internet References

Cornell U.
Habitus and genitalia on European Chrysomelidae webpage

Works Cited

1.Polish Biodiversity Information Network • Coleoptera Poloniae
2.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
3.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.
Contributed by v belov on 27 February, 2014 - 10:51pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Boris Bueche
Last updated 21 August, 2021 - 1:17pm

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