Epitrix is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are 162 described species in Epitrix, which occur in all continents except Australia and Antarctica.[1] Many species of the genus are serious pests of potatoes and other plants in the Solanaceae family.

Epitrix
Epitrix sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Epitrix
Foudras in Mulsant, 1860
Type species
Epitrix atropae
Foudras in Mulsant, 1860
Synonyms
  • Epithrix Bedel, 1899
  • Euplecnema Jacoby, 1906
Epitrix hirtipennis

Species

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References

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  1. ^ Bieńkowski, A.O.; Orlova-Bienkowskaja, M. (2017). "World checklist of flea-beetles of the genus Epitrix (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini)". Zootaxa. 4268 (4): 523–540. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4268.4.4. PMID 28610351.
  • 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.

Further reading

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  • Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
  • 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.