Neofidia humeralis

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Neofidia humeralis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Neofidia
Species:
N. humeralis
Binomial name
Neofidia humeralis
(Lefèvre, 1877) [1]
Synonyms [2] [3]

Neofidia humeralis is a species of leaf beetle. [4] [5] [6] [7] It ranges from southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico, along the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre del Sur, south to Oaxaca in southwestern Mexico. [2] [7] It was first described as two species, Fidia humeralis and Fidia plagiata, by the French entomologist Édouard Lefèvre in 1877. These two species were later found to be synonymous. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Lefèvre, E. (1877). "Descriptions de coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus de la famille des Eumolpides (1re partie)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France . 5. 7: 115–166.
  2. 1 2 3 Strother, M.S.; Staines, C.L. (2008). "A revision of the New World genus Fidia Baly 1863 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae: Adoxini)". Zootaxa . 1798: 1–100. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1798.1.1.
  3. 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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