Agasicles (beetle)

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Agasicles
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Agasicles hygrophila
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Agasicles
Jacoby, 1905
Type species
Agasicles vittata
Jacoby, 1905

Agasicles is a genus of flea beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae. [1] The species of this genus are native to South America, [2] though the species Agasicles hygrophila has been introduced to the southeastern United States as a biological control agent against alligator weed.

Species

The genus includes five species: [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Agasicles Jacoby, 1904". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  2. 1 2 Selman, B.J.; Vogt, G.B. (1971). "Lectotype designations in the South American genus Agasicles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), with description of a new species important as a supressant of alligatorweed". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 64 (5): 1016–1020. doi:10.1093/aesa/64.5.1016.


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