Calligrapha

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Calligrapha
Ninebark Calligrapha Beetle - Calligrapha spiraea, Muddy Creek, Garrett County, Maryland.jpg
Calligrapha spiraeae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Chrysomelinae
Tribe: Chrysomelini
Genus: Calligrapha
Chevrolat, 1836
Type species
Chrysomela polyspila [1]
Germar, 1821
Subgenera [2]
  • Bidensomela
  • Calligramma [3]
  • Calligrapha
  • Erythrographa [4]
  • Graphicallo [3]
  • Zygogramma
Synonyms [2]
sensu stricto
Bidensomela
  • AcalligraphaMonrós, 1955 [3]
  • CoreopsomelaMonrós, 1955 [3]
Zygogramma
  • ZygospilaAchard, 1923

Calligrapha is a large genus of American Chrysomelinae (a subfamily of leaf beetles), with over 100 species occurring from North America through Central America. [2]

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Biology

Some members of the subgenus Zygogramma are agricultural pests, while others are used as biological control agents. Calligrapha exclamationis is a pest species of sunflower crops in North America. [5] At least two species have also been used as a form of biological pest control: Calligrapha bicolorata was introduced to India as a biocontrol agent for the weed Parthenium hysterophorus , [6] and Calligrapha suturalis was introduced to Russia as a control for Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed). [7]

Selected species

References

  1. ↑ Bousquet, Yves; Bouchard, Patrice (2013). "The genera in the second catalogue (1833–1836) of Dejean's Coleoptera collection". ZooKeys (282): 1–219. Bibcode:2013ZooK..282....1B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.282.4401 . PMC   3677338 . PMID   23794836.
  2. 1 2 3 Shawn M. Clark, Hume B. Douglas, Daniel J. Cavan (2024) Notes on Calligrapha Chevrolat (subgenus Zygogramma Chevrolat) and Tritaenia Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 78(2): 281-295.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Monrós, F. (1955). "On some new genera of nearctic Chrysomelinae (Chrysomelidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 9 (4): 53–60. JSTOR   3998693.
  4. ↑ Gómez-Zurita, J. (2018). "Systematic revision of Central American Calligrapha Chevrolat of the subgenus Erythrographa subgen. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae)". Zootaxa. 4531 (1): 1–58. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4531.1.1. PMID   30651449. S2CID   58565394.
  5. ↑ Janet J. Knodel; Laurence D. Charlet; Phillip A. Glogoza (2000). "Biology and Pest Management of the Sunflower Beetle in North Dakota". North Dakota State University . Retrieved 2017-02-17.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Zygogramma bicolorata (Mexican beetle)". Invasive Species Compendium. 2012. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  7. ↑ Kovalev, O.V.; Reznik, S.Ya.; Cherkashin, V.N. (1983). "Specific features of the methods of using Zygogramma Chevr. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) in biological control of ragweeds (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L., A. psilostachya D.C.)". Entomologicheskoe Obozrenije (in Russian). 62: 402–408.
  8. ↑ Gómez-Zurita, J.; Vogler, A.P.; Funk, D.J. (2004). "Diagnosing an overlooked North American taxon: biological observations and mitochondrial insights on Calligrapha suturella Schaeffer, 1933 new status (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America . 97 (1): 28–36. doi: 10.1603/0013-8746(2004)097[0028:DAONAT]2.0.CO;2 .


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