Mantura floridana Crotch, 1873
Mantura floridana: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/18546
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"Normally feeds on dock (Polygonaceae: Rumex spp.); adults have been reared from larvae mining leaves of climbing false buckwheat (Fallopia scandens)" (Eiseman 2014).

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Mantura floridana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Mantura
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M. floridana
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Mantura floridana
Crotch, 1873

Mantura floridana is a species of flea beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in North America.[1][2][3] Larvae feed on Fallopia scandens. They appear yellow through the leaf epidermis, as the larvae are leaf miners.[4]

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  1. ^ "Mantura floridana Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "Mantura floridana". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ^ Eiseman, Charles S. (2015). "Notes on Leaf-Mining Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) in New England". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 69 (3): 453–458. doi:10.1649/0010-065X-69.3.453. ISSN 0010-065X. JSTOR 24773630. S2CID 86039331. Retrieved 26 June 2023.

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