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Species Sumitrosis rosea

Cassidinae, Bittersweet miner, back light - Sumitrosis rosea

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 Chalepini

Genus Sumitrosis

Species rosea (Sumitrosis rosea)

Explanation of Names

Sumitrosis rosea (Weber 1801)

Range

e.NA to Rockies (NS-SK south to FL-TX-AZ) - Map (1)(2)(3)

Food

Larvae are leafminers on various legumes (Fabaceae), such as black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) and tick trefoil (Desmodium); adults have been collected on plants in other families(4).

Beetles apparently of this species have been reared from larvae mining bittersweet (Celastrus) and wood nettle (Laportea), but these may eventually prove to be distinct species, possibly separable only by host plant and DNA.

See Also

S. inaequalis has darker antennae

Print References

(5)

Works Cited

1.	Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: Subfamily Cassidinae Barney R.J., Clark S.M., Riley E.G. 2007. J. Kentucky Acad. Sci. 68: 132-144.

2.	Identification guide to the Leaf Beetles of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

4.	Catalog of the hispines of the World

5.	New host records and other notes on North American leaf-mining Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) Eiseman C.S. 2014. Col. Bull. 68: 351-359.

Contributed by tom murray on 18 February, 2007 - 9:38pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, ceiseman, v belov, roar
Last updated 2 May, 2023 - 1:10am

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