Altica knabii
Appearance
Altica knabii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Genus: | Altica |
Species: | A. knabii
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Binomial name | |
Altica knabii Blatchley, 1910
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Altica knabii is a species in the tribe Alticini ("flea beetles"), in the subfamily Galerucinae ("skeletonizing leaf beetles and flea beetles").[1][2][3] It is found in North America.[2] It overwinters in leaf litter and is associated with Oenothera biennis.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Altica knabii Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Altica knabii Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ "Altica knabii Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ Webster, Reginald; LeSage, Laurent; DeMerchant, Ian (4 April 2012). "New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Megalopodidae and Chrysomelidae". ZooKeys (179): 312–348. Bibcode:2012ZooK..179..312W. doi:10.3897/zookeys.179.2625. PMC 3337067. PMID 22539900.
Further reading
[edit]- Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.