Lythraria | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
Tribe: | Alticini |
Genus: | Lythraria Bedel, 1897 |
Species: | L. salicariae |
Binomial name | |
Lythraria salicariae (Paykull, 1800) | |
Synonyms | |
Paraphthonomorpha Ohno, 1960 |
Lythraria is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, containing a single described species, Lythraria salicariae, from the Palaearctic. [1]
The flea beetle is a small, jumping beetle of the leaf beetle family (Chrysomelidae), that makes up the tribe Alticini which is part of the subfamily Galerucinae. Historically the flea beetles were classified as their own subfamily.