Acalymma blandulum

Acalymma blandulum
Acalymma blandulum, Oklahoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Acalymma
Species:	A. blandulum
Binomial name
Acalymma blandulum (J. L. LeConte, 1868)

Acalymma blandulum is a species of skeletonizing leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. ^{[1] [2] [3]} It is found in the United States and Mexico. ^{[2] [4]}

Subspecies

There are three subspecies of Acalymma blandulum: ^[4]

• A. blandulum blandulum(J. L. LeConte, 1868) – United States: Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas; Mexico: Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Oaxaca, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Zacatecas.
• A. blandulum nigriventreMunroe & Smith, 1980 – Mexico: Chihuahua, Durango, Jalisco, Mexico, Zacatecas.
• A. blandulum yucatanenseMunroe & Smith, 1980 – Mexico: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán.

References

1. "Acalymma blandulum Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
2. "Acalymma blandulum Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
3. "Acalymma blandulum Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
4. Munroe, D.D.; Smith, R.F. (1980). "A revision of the systematics of Acalymma sensu stricto Barber (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from North America including Mexico". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada . 112: 1–92. doi:10.4039/entm112112fv.

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 LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Nie, R-E; Bezděk, J; Yang, X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae 7". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. Bibcode:2017ZooK..720...91N. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.720.13517 . PMC   5740445 . PMID   29290727.