Neofidia clematis

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Neofidia clematis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Neofidia
Species:
N. clematis
Binomial name
Neofidia clematis
(Schaeffer, 1904) [1]
Synonyms [2]

Fidia clematis Schaeffer, 1904

Neofidia clematis is a species of leaf beetle. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] It is known from southernmost Texas to central Veracruz, Mexico, east of the Sierra Madre Oriental. [8] [6] It was first described by the American entomologist Charles Frederic August Schaeffer in 1904. Two series of this species from Texas were collected from Cissus incisa , a species in the grape family (Vitaceae). [8] [6]

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References

  1. Schaeffer, C. (1904). "New Genera and Species of Coleoptera". Journal of the New York Entomological Society . 12 (4): 197–236. JSTOR   25003118.
  2. Kumari, S. Amritha; Moseyko, A. G.; Strother, M. S.; Prathapan, K. D. (2020). "Neofidia Strother, a new name for Fidia Baly, 1863 and redescription of Fidia kanaraensis (Jacoby, 1895) with a new host record and notes on natural history (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (654): 1–25. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2020.654 .
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