Biology:Fidia longipes

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Short description: Species of beetle

Fidia longipes
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Fidia
Species:
F. longipes
Binomial name
Fidia longipes
(F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Eumolpus longipes F. E. Melsheimer, 1847
  • Pachnephorus viticolus Uhler, 1855

Fidia longipes is a species of leaf beetle[3][4][5] that is found in North America.[4] It occurs mostly east of the Appalachian Mountains. It is associated with plants such as Ilex opaca (Aquifoliaceae), soybeans (Fabaceae), Salix (Salicaceae), and various Vitaceae including Ampelopsis arborea, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, and various species in the genus Vitis.[2]

Fidia longipes is very similar to the species Fidia rileyorum, and females of the two species cannot be distinguished without associated males. The two species are also sympatric along the Appalachian Mountains, as well as in central Ohio and in central Alabama.[2]

References

Further reading

  • American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. 2002. 
  • Arnett, Ross H. (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1. 
  • White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company. 
  • Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Gilbert, Arthur J. (2001). "New records, nomenclatural changes, and taxonomic notes for select North American leaf beetles". Insecta Mundi 15 (1): 1–17. 

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