Colaspis pini

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Colaspis pini
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Colaspis
Species:
C. pini
Binomial name
Colaspis pini
Barber, 1937 [1]

Colaspis pini, the pine colaspis, is a species of leaf beetle from North America. [2] [3] [4] [5] It is known to feed on pines in the southern United States, and is an occasional pest of Christmas trees. [5] It was first described by the American entomologist Herbert Spencer Barber in 1937.

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Colaspis pini resembles Colaspis brunnea (the grape colaspis), and is externally almost identical to Colaspis flavocostata but differs in the shape of the aedeagus. [1]

Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Colaspis pini: [1]

Data sources: i = ITIS, [2] c = Catalogue of Life, [3] g = GBIF, [4] b = Bugguide.net [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Barber, H. S. (1937). "Some species of Colaspis from the brunnea confusion (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 38 (9): 198–204.
  2. 1 2 "Colaspis pini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  3. 1 2 "Colaspis pini species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  4. 1 2 "Colaspis pini". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  5. 1 2 3 "Colaspis pini Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-12.

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