Altica bimarginata, the willow flea beetle is a species of flea beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Central America and North America.[1][2][3] It often is found feeding on plants from the Salix genus. It is shiny blue, being 5-6 mm long and 2-3 mm wide.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Altica |
| Species: | A. bimarginata
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| Binomial name | |
| Altica bimarginata Say, 1824
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Subspecies
editThese three subspecies belong to the species Altica bimarginata:
- Altica bimarginata bimarginata Say, 1824
- Altica bimarginata labradorensis LeSage, 1993
- Altica bimarginata plicipennis (Mannerheim, 1843)
References
edit- ^ "Altica bimarginata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Altica bimarginata". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Altica bimarginata species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ Barstow, Darrell A.; Gittins, A. R. (October 1973). "Descriptions of the Life Stages of Altica bimarginata Say (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Journal of Kansas Entomological Society. 46 (4): 500–510. JSTOR 25082600. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
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.
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