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Spinach Flea Beetle in Carroll Co., Maryland (10/14/2022).
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| Disonycha xanthomelas | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Disonycha |
| Species: | D. xanthomelas
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| Binomial name | |
| Disonycha xanthomelas (Dalman, 1823)
| |

Disonycha xanthomelas is a species in the tribe Alticini ("flea beetles"), in the subfamily Galerucinae ("skeletonizing leaf beetles and flea beetles").[1][2] The species is known generally as the "spinach flea beetle".[3] It is found in North America.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Disonycha xanthomelas Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Disonycha xanthomelas Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ "Disonycha xanthomelas Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
Further reading
[edit]- Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.
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