Biology:Metachroma orientale

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Short description: Species of beetle

Metachroma orientale
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Metachroma
Species:
M. orientale
Binomial name
Metachroma orientale
Blake, 1970[1]
Synonyms

Metachroma pallidum Crotch, 1873
(nec Say, 1824)
[2]

Metachroma orientale is a species of leaf beetle.[3][4][5][6] It is found in coastal states in the United States , ranging from Texas to Florida to Massachusetts . Its length is between 3.5 and 4.7 mm.[3]

References

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1. 
  • American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 2002. 
  • Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. 2008. ISBN 978-1402062421. 
  • LeConte, J.L. (1861). "Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Part I (part)". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 3 (136): 1–208. 
  • Papp, Charles S. (1984). Introduction to North American Beetles. Entomography Pubns. 
  • Peck, Stewart B.; Michael C. Thomas (1998). A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 
  • "Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America (Entomological Information Services) 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera: 41–820. 1996. 
  • 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. 
  • Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication no. 1. The Coleopterists Society. ISBN 978-0-9726087-1-8. 
  • White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin. 

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