Biology:Systena
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Short description: Genus of flea beetles
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| Systena blanda | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Tribe: | Alticini |
| Genus: | Systena Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836 |
Systena is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 90 described species, found in the New World, mostly in the Neotropics.[1]
Selected species
- Systena bitaeniata (J. L. LeConte, 1859)
- Systena blanda F. E. Melsheimer, 1847 (palestriped flea beetle)
- Systena californica Blake, 1935
- Systena carri Blake, 1935
- Systena collaris Crotch, 1873
- Systena corni Schaeffer, 1932 (dogwood systena)
- Systena dimorpha Blake, 1933
- Systena elongata (Fabricius, 1798) (elongate flea beetle)
- Systena frontalis (Fabricius, 1801) (red-headed flea beetle)
- Systena gracilenta Blake, 1933
- Systena hudsonias (Forster, 1771) (black-headed flea beetle)
- Systena laevis Blake, 1935
- Systena laurentia Bechyné, 1955
- Systena lherminieri Bryant, 1942
- Systena marginalis (Illiger, 1807) (margined systena)
- Systena mitis (J. L. LeConte, 1858)
- Systena pallicornis Schaeffer, 1906
- Systena pallipes Schwarz, 1878
- Systena plicata Blatchley, 1921
- Systena sexnotata Fall, 1910
- Systena s-littera (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Systena variata Schaeffer, 1932
References
Further reading
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E. et al., eds (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Clark, S.M.; Le Doux, D.G.; Riley, E.G.; Gilbert, A.J. et al. (2004). Host Plants of Leaf Beetle Species Occurring in the United States and Canada. Coleopterists Society. ISBN 9780972608732.
- 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. The Coleopterists Society. ISBN 0-9726087-1-0.
- White, Richard E. (1998). A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3509114 entry
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