Leaf beetle, the Glossary
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle families.[1]
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91 relations: Acalymma vittatum, Agelastica alni, Altica, Altica cirsicola, Antenna (biology), Anthribidae, Asparagus beetle, Aulacophora nigripennis, Bean weevil, Biological pest control, Brill Publishers, Bruchus pisorum, Cassidinae, Cereal leaf beetle, Charidotella sexpunctata, Chelymorpha alternans, Chrysolina americana, Chrysolina bankii, Chrysolina fastuosa, Chrysomela aeneicollis, Chrysomela populi, Chrysomelinae, Clytra laeviuscula, Clytrini, Colorado potato beetle, Common asparagus beetle, Criocerinae, Cryptocephalinae, Detritivore, Donaciinae, Elm leaf beetle, Eumolpinae, Family (biology), Félicien Chapuis, Flea beetle, Flowering plant, Frederick William Hope, Fulcidacini, Galerucinae, Gall, Genus, George Henry Horn, Imago, Insect collecting, Japan, Jean Théodore Lacordaire, John Lawrence LeConte, Jurassic, Karabastau Formation, Lamprosomatinae, ... Expand index (41 more) »
- Chrysomelidae
Acalymma vittatum
Acalymma vittatum, the striped cucumber beetle, is a beetle of the family Chrysomelidae and a serious pest of cucurbit crops in both larval and adult stages.
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Agelastica alni
Agelastica alni, the alder leaf beetle, is a species of leaf beetle (Chrysomelidae) in the genus Agelastica.
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Altica
Altica (Neo-Latin from Greek ἁλτικός, haltikós, "jumper" or "jumping") is a large genus of flea beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae, with about 300 species, distributed nearly worldwide.
Altica cirsicola
Altica cirsicola is a species of flea beetle from the genus Altica, which belongs to the family Chrysomelidae (commonly known as leaf beetles).
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Antenna (biology)
Antennae (antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.
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Anthribidae
Anthribidae is a family of beetles also known as fungus weevils.
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Asparagus beetle
Crioceris, or asparagus beetle, is a genus of the family Chrysomelidae of beetles.
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Aulacophora nigripennis
Aulacophora nigripennis is a species of leaf beetle in the genus Aulacophora.
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Bean weevil
The bean weevils or seed beetles are a subfamily (Bruchinae) of beetles, now placed in the family Chrysomelidae, though they have historically been treated as a separate family.
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Biological pest control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals or plants by using other organisms.
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Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
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Bruchus pisorum
Bruchus pisorum, known generally as pea weevil, is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae.
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Cassidinae
The Cassidinae (tortoise and leaf-mining beetles) are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae. Leaf beetle and Cassidinae are Chrysomelidae.
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Cereal leaf beetle
The cereal leaf beetle (Oulema melanopus) is a significant crop pest, described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.
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Charidotella sexpunctata
Charidotella sexpunctata, the golden tortoise beetle, is a species of beetle in the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae.
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Chelymorpha alternans
Chelymorpha alternans, the neotropical tortoise beetle, is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae and the Cassidinae subfamily. Leaf beetle and Chelymorpha alternans are insect vectors of plant pathogens.
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Chrysolina americana
Chrysolina americana, common name rosemary beetle, is a species of beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.
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Chrysolina bankii
Chrysolina bankii is a species of leaf beetle native to western Europe and the western Mediterranean Basin (including Macaronesia).
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Chrysolina fastuosa
Chrysolina fastuosa, also known as the dead-nettle leaf beetle, is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae found in Europe, Caucasus and northern Turkey.
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Chrysomela aeneicollis
Chrysomela aeneicollis is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae.
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Chrysomela populi
Chrysomela populi is a species of broad-shouldered leaf beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Chrysomelinae.
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Chrysomelinae
The Chrysomelinae are a subfamily of leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), commonly known as broad-bodied leaf beetles or broad-shouldered leaf beetles. Leaf beetle and Chrysomelinae are Chrysomelidae.
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Clytra laeviuscula
Clytra laeviuscula, the ant bag beetle, is a species of short-horned leaf beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Cryptocephalinae.
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Clytrini
The Clytrini are a tribe within the leaf beetle subfamily Cryptocephalinae, though historically they were often treated as a distinct subfamily, Clytrinae.
Colorado potato beetle
The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata; also known as the Colorado beetle, the ten-striped spearman, the ten-lined potato beetle, and the potato bug) is a beetle known for being a major pest of potato crops.
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Common asparagus beetle
The common asparagus beetle (Crioceris asparagi) is an important pest of asparagus crops both in Europe and in North America.
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Criocerinae
The Criocerinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae. Leaf beetle and Criocerinae are Chrysomelidae.
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Cryptocephalinae
The Cryptocephalinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), and belong to the group of case-bearing leaf beetles called the Camptosomata. Leaf beetle and Cryptocephalinae are Chrysomelidae.
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Detritivore
Detritivores (also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders or detritus eaters) are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as feces).
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Donaciinae
The Donaciinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae, characterised by distinctly long antennae. Leaf beetle and Donaciinae are Chrysomelidae.
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Elm leaf beetle
Xanthogaleruca luteola, commonly known as the elm-leaf beetle, is a beetle species in the family Chrysomelidae that is native to Europe but invasive in other parts of the world.
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Eumolpinae
The Eumolpinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae. Leaf beetle and Eumolpinae are Chrysomelidae.
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Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Félicien Chapuis
Félicien Chapuis (29 April 1824 – 30 September 1879) was a Belgian doctor and entomologist.
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Flea beetle
The flea beetle is a small, jumping beetle of the leaf beetle family (Chrysomelidae), that makes up the tribe Alticini which is part of the subfamily Galerucinae.
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Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
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Frederick William Hope
Frederick William Hope (3 January 1797 – 15 April 1862) was an English clergyman, naturalist, collector, and entomologist, who founded a professorship at the University of Oxford to which he gave his entire collections of insects in 1849 (now known as the Hope Collection or in expanded form the Hope Entomological Collections, with around 3.5 million specimens).
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Fulcidacini
The Fulcidacini, sometimes known as the warty leaf beetles, are a tribe within the leaf beetle subfamily Cryptocephalinae, though historically they were often treated as a distinct subfamily, Chlamisinae.
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Galerucinae
The Galerucinae are a large subfamily of the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), containing about 15,000 species in more than 1000 genera, of which about 500 genera and about 8000 species make up the flea beetle tribe Alticini. Leaf beetle and Galerucinae are Chrysomelidae.
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Gall
Galls (from the Latin galla, 'oak-apple') or cecidia (from the Greek, anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
George Henry Horn
George Henry Horn (April 7, 1840 – November 24, 1897) was an American entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles.
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Imago
In biology, the imago (Latin for "image") is the last stage an insect attains during its metamorphosis, its process of growth and development; it is also called the imaginal stage ("imaginal" being "imago" in adjective form), the stage in which the insect attains maturity.
Insect collecting
Insect collecting refers to the collection of insects and other arthropods for scientific study or as a hobby.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jean Théodore Lacordaire
Théodore Lacordaire or Jean Théodore Lacordaire (1 February 1801 – 18 July 1870) was a Belgian entomologist of French extraction.
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John Lawrence LeConte
John Lawrence LeConte MD (May 13, 1825 – November 15, 1883) was an American entomologist, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during his lifetime, - URL retrieved September 14, 2006 including some 5,000 species of beetles.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
Karabastau Formation
The Karabastau Formation (Qarabastaý svıtasy) is a geological formation and lagerstätte in the Karatau Mountains of southern Kazakhstan whose strata date to the Middle to Late Jurassic.
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Lamprosomatinae
The Lamprosomatinae are a small subfamily of leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae). Leaf beetle and Lamprosomatinae are Chrysomelidae.
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Larva
A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.
Leaf miner
A leaf miner is any one of numerous species of insects in which the larval stage lives in, and eats, the leaf tissue of plants.
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Legume
Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.
Leonard Gyllenhaal
Leonard Gyllenhaal (3 December 1752 – 13 May 1840) was a Swedish nobleman, military officer and entomologist.
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Longhorn beetle
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns (whose larvae are often referred to as roundheaded borers), are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described.
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Luperus longicornis
Luperus longicornis is a skeletonizing leaf beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Galerucinae.
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Megalopodidae
The Megalopodidae are a small family of leaf beetles, previously included as a subfamily within the Chrysomelidae.
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Milkweed leaf beetle
The milkweed leaf beetle (Labidomera clivicollis) is a species of leaf beetle from the family Chrysomelidae.
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Myrmecophily
Myrmecophily is the term applied to positive interspecies associations between ants and a variety of other organisms, such as plants, other arthropods, and fungi.
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Orsodacnidae
The Orsodacnidae are a small family of leaf beetles, previously included as a subfamily within the Chrysomelidae.
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Orthotylus marginalis
Orthotylus marginalis is a species of stinkbugs from the Miridae family that can be found throughout Europe (except for Liechtenstein and various European islands).
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Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
Pandorea
Pandorea is a genus of nine species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae and is native to Australia, Malesia, New Guinea and New Caledonia.
Parasyrphus nigritarsis
Parasyrphus nigritarsis is a species of hoverfly, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera.
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Phaedon cochleariae
Phaedon cochleariae (commonly called mustard beetle or watercress beetle) is a non-social, holometabolous species of leaf beetle native to Europe.
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Phratora laticollis
Phratora laticollis is a species of leaf beetle found in Europe and Asia.
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Phratora vitellinae
Phratora vitellinae, the brassy leaf beetle, formerly Phyllodecta vitellinae, is a beetle of the family Chrysomelidae found in Europe and Asia.
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Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille (29 November 1762 – 6 February 1833) was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods.
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Plagiosterna aenea
Plagiosterna aenea is a species of leaf beetle native to Europe.
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Plant disease
Plant diseases are diseases in plants caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors).
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Plant litter
Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that have fallen to the ground.
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Polistes carolina
Polistes carolina is one of two species of red paper wasp found in the eastern United States (the other being Polistes rubiginosus) and is noted for the finer ridges on its propodeum.
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Pollen
Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.
Prothorax
The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs.
Rhacognathus punctatus
Rhacognathus punctatus, the Heather Bug, is a species of stink bugs (family Pentatomidae).
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Sagrinae
The Sagrinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae. Leaf beetle and Sagrinae are Chrysomelidae.
Scarlet lily beetle
The scarlet lily beetle, red lily beetle, or lily leaf beetle (Lilioceris lilii), is a leaf beetle that eats the leaves, stem, buds, and flowers, of lilies, fritillaries and other members of the family Liliaceae.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Spilopyrinae
The Spilopyrinae are a small subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae. Leaf beetle and Spilopyrinae are Chrysomelidae.
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Stemborer
A stemborer (stem borer) is any insect larva, or arthropod, that bores into plant stems.
Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
Symmorphus bifasciatus
Symmorphus bifasciatus, the willow mason-wasp, is a species of potter wasp, from the subfamily Eumeninae of the social wasp family Vespidae which is widely distributed in the Palearctic region.
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Synetinae
The Synetinae are a small subfamily within the leaf beetle family (Chrysomelidae). Leaf beetle and Synetinae are Chrysomelidae.
Tarsal formula
A tarsal formula states the number of segments of an insect's tarsi as three numbers, a-b-c, starting with the fore leg (a), then the middle leg (b), then the hind leg (c).
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Timarcha
Timarcha is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, with more than 100 described species in three subgenera.
Tubercle
In anatomy, a tubercle (literally 'small tuber', Latin for 'lump') is any round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on external or internal organs of a plant or an animal.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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University of Wrocław
The University of Wrocław (Uniwersytet Wrocławski, UWr; Universitas Wratislaviensis) is a public research university in Wrocław, Poland.
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William Elford Leach
William Elford Leach (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist.
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William Kirby (entomologist)
William Kirby (19 September 1759 – 4 July 1850) was an English entomologist, an original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a country rector, so that he was an eminent example of the "parson-naturalist".
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See also
Chrysomelidae
- Bruchinae
- Camptosomata
- Cassidinae
- Chrysomelinae
- Criocerinae
- Cryptocephalinae
- Cucumber beetle
- Donaciinae
- Eumolpinae
- Fecal shield
- Galerucinae
- Lamprosomatinae
- Leaf beetle
- List of leaf beetle (Chrysomelidae) species recorded in Britain
- Oomorphus
- Oomorphus floridanus
- Sagra (beetle)
- Sagra buqueti
- Sagra femorata
- Sagra purpurea
- Sagrinae
- Spilopyrinae
- Synetinae
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_beetle
Also known as Chrysomelid, Chrysomelidae, Leaf Beetles.
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