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Feeds on "eggplant, potato, horsenettle, tobacco (all family Solanaceae). May be very damaging to root crops in the larval stage and to young seedlings when feeding on the leaves as an adult" (BugGuide).
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An Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (5/8/2019). Determined by Anthony Martin Deczynski and Blaine Mathison via BugGuide.
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Steve Scholnick.
Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (8/16/2020). Determined by A. Deczynski/BugGuide.
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Jim Moore.
An Eggplant Flea Beetle in Howard Co., Maryland (9/12/2017). Determined by Anthony Deczynski/BugGuide.
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Barbara Thurlow.
Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/30/2022). (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY).
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Katja Schulz via iNaturalist.
Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (5/15/2023). (c) Jim Moore (Maryland), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Jim Moore.
An Eggplant Flea Beetle in Talbot Co., Maryland (5/16/2015). Determined by Anthony Deczynski/BugGuide.
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Ashley Bradford.
Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (5/15/2023). (c) Jim Moore (Maryland), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Jim Moore.
An Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/20/2014). Determined by Anthony Deczynski/BugGuide.
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Even Dankowicz.
Source: Wikipedia
Epitrix fuscula | |
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Epitrix fuscula, Oklahoma | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Tribe: | Alticini |
Genus: | Epitrix |
Species: | E. fuscula
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Binomial name | |
Epitrix fuscula Crotch, 1873
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Epitrix fuscula, the eggplant flea beetle, is a species of flea beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in North America.[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Epitrix fuscula Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ "Epitrix fuscula". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ "Epitrix fuscula species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
Further reading
[edit]- Nie, R-E; Bezděk, J.; Yang, X-K (2017). "How many genera and species of Galerucinae s. str. do we know? Updated statistics (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). In: Chaboo CS, Schmitt M (Eds) Research on Chrysomelidae". ZooKeys (720): 91–102. Bibcode:2017ZooK..720...91N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.720.13517. PMC 5740445. PMID 29290727.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7.