| Colaspis floridana | |
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| Dorsal view of an adult Colaspis floridana beetle | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Colaspis |
| Species: | C. floridana |
| Binomial name | |
| Colaspis floridana | |
| Synonyms | |
Colaspis floridana is a species of leaf beetle from North America. It mainly occurs in the southeastern United States, including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. [1]
In the adult stage, Colaspis floridana is a small oval beetle, between 4.0 and 5.5 mm (0.16 and 0.22 in) in length. Its color is yellowish-brown to pale reddish-brown, with rows of darker brown punctures on its elytra. It is very similar to the closely related Colaspis brunnea, but is readily distinguished by the first two elytral costae being wider and separated by a single row of punctures. [1]
Colaspis floridana was originally described by Charles Schaeffer in 1933 as a variety of Colaspis brunnea , [2] and was elevated to species rank in 1974 by Doris Blake. [1] Another species of Colaspis was mistakenly described under the same name by Blake in 1977; [3] after discovering the error, Edward Riley renamed that species as C. pseudofavosa . [4]
Although little has been published specific to the larval behavior of C. floridana, its life history is likely to be similar to that of closely related species such as C. brunnea, in which the larvae feed underground on roots of grasses and forbs, overwinter underground, and emerge as an adults in the following year. [1] The adult stage feeds on leaves of a wide range of plants, including crop species such as soybean, okra, and peanut, as well as ornamental plants such as rose [1] and crapemyrtle, [5] although it has not been reported as an economically damaging pest.
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Doris Holmes Blake, néeDoris Mildred Holmes, was an American entomologist and scientific illustrator.
Colaspis is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is one of the largest genera in the subfamily, containing over 200 species, and it is known from both North and South America. A number of species from this genus are considered to be pests, such as the grape colaspis. Some species are known from the fossil record from the Eocene of Colorado in the United States.
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Colaspis pini, the pine colaspis, is a species of leaf beetle from North America. It is known to feed on pines in the southern United States, and is an occasional pest of Christmas trees. It was first described by the American entomologist Herbert Spencer Barber in 1937.
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Colaspis louisianae is a species of leaf beetle from North America. It is distributed in Texas and Louisiana in the United States. It is close in appearance to Colaspis brunnea.
Tymnes is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known from North America and Central America. There are at least nine described species in Tymnes.
Rhabdopterus weisei is a species of leaf beetle. It is found in North America. It was originally described under the name Colaspis subaenea by the American entomologist Charles Frederic August Schaeffer in 1919. However, this name was already used for a species described by Martin Jacoby in 1890, so Schaeffer renamed his species to Colaspis weisei the following year. It was later moved to the genus Rhabdopterus by Herbert Spencer Barber in 1943.
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Colaspis flavocostata is a species of leaf beetle from North America. It is found in the coastal states of the United States; its range spans from Mississippi to Florida and to South Carolina. It was first described by the American entomologist Charles Frederic August Schaeffer in 1933.
Colaspis costipennis is a species of leaf beetle from eastern North America. It is mostly found in coastal states; in the United States, its range extends from Louisiana and Georgia north to New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, and in Canada, it is reported from Ontario. It was originally described as a variety of Colaspis brunnea, but it is now recognised as a distinct species. It is included in the Colaspis suilla species group by Riley (2020).
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Colaspis crinicornis is a species of leaf beetle from North America. It primarily occurs in the Great Plains of the United States. It was first described by the American entomologist Charles Frederic August Schaeffer in 1933. Though it has not historically been considered a pest, population densities of the species have been increasing in corn and soybean over the last decade in southeastern Nebraska. A study has found C. crinicornis to be univoltine in the same region, and that it overwinters in soil as larvae. It has also been found that diets of corn or soybean leaves do not affect the consumption, longevity or fecundity of adult C. crinicornis.
Colaspis pseudofavosa is a species of leaf beetle from North America. It is a post-harvest pest of blueberries in the southeastern United States, and also feeds on plants such as southern wax myrtles and pecans.
Colaspis brownsvillensis, the Brownsville milkvine leaf beetle, is a species of leaf beetle found in the state of Texas in the United States. It was first described by the American entomologist Doris Holmes Blake in 1976 from Brownsville, Texas, after which the species is named. It is a close relative of Colaspis nigrocyanea.
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