Disonycha xanthomelas

Disonycha xanthomelas
Disonycha xanthomelas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Disonycha
Species: D. xanthomelas
Binomial name
Disonycha xanthomelas
(Dalman, 1823)

Disonycha xanthomelas is a species in the tribe Alticini ("flea beetles"), in the subfamily Galerucinae ("skeletonizing leaf beetles and flea beetles").[1][2] The species is known generally as the "spinach flea beetle".[3] It is found in North America.[2]

Disonycha xanthomelas
Spinach Flea Beetle, Disonycha xanthomelas, Pryor, OK, USA[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Disonycha xanthomelas Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  2. 1 2 "Disonycha xanthomelas Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  3. ↑ "Disonycha xanthomelas Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  4. ↑ "Images and collection data for Disonycha xanthomelas". Pictures from Earth. Retrieved 2018-01-20. .

Further reading

  • 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.


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