Kuschelina
Appearance
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Kuschelina floridana | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Tribe: | Alticini |
Genus: | Kuschelina J. Bechyné, 1951 |
Kuschelina is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are some 30 described species, from the Nearctic and Neotropics.[1]
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Selected species
- Kuschelina aemula (Horn, 1889)
- Kuschelina amplivittata (Blake, 1927)
- Kuschelina barberi (Blake, 1954)
- Kuschelina brachyscela (Blake, 1965)
- Kuschelina concinna (Fabricius, 1801)
- Kuschelina discicollis (Crotch, 1873)
- Kuschelina fallax (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)
- Kuschelina fimbriata (Forster, 1771)
- Kuschelina flavocyanea (Crotch, 1873)
- Kuschelina floridana (Blake, 1954)
- Kuschelina gibbitarsa (Say, 1824) (flea beetle)
- Kuschelina horni (Harold, 1881)
- Kuschelina jacobiana (Horn, 1889)
- Kuschelina laeta (Perbosc, 1839)
- Kuschelina lateralis (Jacoby, 1886)
- Kuschelina lepida (Boheman 1859)
- Kuschelina lugens (J. L. LeConte, 1859)
- Kuschelina miniata (Fabricius, 1801)
- Kuschelina perplexa (Blake, 1954)
- Kuschelina petaurista (Fabricius, 1801)
- Kuschelina rhabdota (Blake, 1954)
- Kuschelina scripticollis (Say, 1824)
- Kuschelina suturella (Say, 1826)
- Kuschelina tenuilineata (Horn, 1889)
- Kuschelina thoracica (Fabricius, 1775)
- Kuschelina ulkei (Horn, 1889)
- Kuschelina vians (Illiger, 1807)
- Kuschelina violascens (J. L. LeConte, 1859)
- Kuschelina weismani (Blake, 1954)
References
Further reading
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press.
- 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). Vol. Special Publication no. 1. The Coleopterists Society. ISBN 0-9726087-1-0.
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