Biology:Phratora americana
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Short description: Species of beetle
| Phratora americana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Phratora |
| Species: | P. americana
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| Binomial name | |
| Phratora americana (Schaeffer, 1928)
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Phratora americana is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in North America.[1][5]This species is known from Ontario, Quebec, and high elevations in the eastern United States of America. It feeds on willow species and varies in color from purple to blue or blue-green.[6]
Subspecies
These two subspecies belong to the species Phratora americana:
- Phratora americana americana (Schaeffer, 1928) i c g
- Phratora americana canadensis Brown, 1951 i c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Phratora americana Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=720136.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Phratora americana species details". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/2ccad5584873877c4042bc9a1db6a96b.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Phratora americana". https://www.gbif.org/species/1048868.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Phratora americana Species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/740599.
- ↑ "North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". Texas Entomology. http://texasento.net/Crypto.html.
- ↑ Brown, W. J. (1951). "The American species of Phratora Chev. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Canadian Entomologist 83 (5): 121–130. doi:10.4039/Ent83121-5.
Further reading
- Flinte, V.; Abejanella, A.; Daccordi, M.; Monteiro, R. F. et al. (2017). "Chrysomelinae species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) and new biological data from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae 7". ZooKeys (720): 5–22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13963. PMID 29391849.
- Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. 2013. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7.
Wikidata ☰ Q14934524 entry
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