Epitrix
Epitrix is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 12 described species in Epitrix.[1][2][3][4][5]
Epitrix hirtipennis
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Tribe: | Alticini |
| Genus: | Epitrix Foudras in Mulsant, 1859 |
Species
- Epitrix brevis Schwarz, 1878
- Epitrix cucumeris (Harris, 1851) (potato flea beetle)
- Epitrix fasciata Blatchley, 1918 (banded epitrix)
- Epitrix flavotestacea Horn, 1894
- Epitrix fuscula Crotch, 1873 (eggplant flea beetle)
- Epitrix hirtipennis (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847) (tobacco flea beetle)
- Epitrix humeralis Dury, 1906
- Epitrix lobata Crotch, 1873
- Epitrix papa Orlova-Bienkowskaja
- Epitrix similaris Gentner, 1944
- Epitrix solani (Blatchley, 1925)
- Epitrix subcrinita (J. L. LeConte, 1857) (western potato flea beetle)
- Epitrix tuberis Gentner, 1944 (tuber flea beetle)
References
- "Epitrix Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
- "Epitrix Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
- White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.
- "North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". Texas Entomology. Mike Quinn. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
- Nie R-E, Bezděk J, Yang X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae 7". ZooKeys 720: 91-102.
- 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.
Further reading
- Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- 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.
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