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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Paranapiacaba

Paranapiacaba connexa Paranapiacaba connexa unknown - Paranapiacaba tricincta leaf beetle - Paranapiacaba tricincta Skeletonizing Leaf Beetle - Paranapiacaba tricincta Paranapiacaba tricincta (Say) - Paranapiacaba tricincta Skeletonizing Leaf Beetle - Paranapiacaba tricincta - Paranapiacaba tricincta Blister beetle - Paranapiacaba tricincta
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 Luperini
Subtribe Diabroticina
No Taxon (Section Diabroticites)
Genus Paranapiacaba
Explanation of Names
Paranapiacaba J. Bechyné 1958
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, ~60 total(1)
Range
neotropical group ranging into sw. US (TX-KS-CO-AZ)(1)
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.