Neofidia longipes is a species of leaf beetle[4][5][6] that is found in North America.[5] It occurs mostly east of the Appalachian Mountains. It is associated with plants such as Ilex opaca (Aquifoliaceae), soybeans (Fabaceae), Salix (Salicaceae), and various Vitaceae including Ampelopsis arborea, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, and various species in the genus Vitis.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Neofidia |
| Species: | N. longipes
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| Neofidia longipes (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)[1]
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Neofidia longipes is very similar to the species Neofidia rileyorum, and females of the two species cannot be distinguished without associated males. The two species are also sympatric along the Appalachian Mountains, as well as in central Ohio and in central Alabama.[2]
References
edit- ^ Melsheimer, F. E. (1847). "Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera of the United States". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 3: 158–181. JSTOR 4058494.
- ^ a b c Strother, M.S.; Staines, C.L. (2008). "A revision of the New World genus Fidia Baly 1863 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae: Adoxini)". Zootaxa. 1798: 1–100. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1798.1.1.
- ^ Kumari, S. Amritha; Moseyko, A. G.; Strother, M. S.; Prathapan, K. D. (2020). "Neofidia Strother, a new name for Fidia Baly, 1863 and redescription of Fidia kanaraensis (Jacoby, 1895) with a new host record and notes on natural history (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (654): 1–25. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.654.
- ^ "Fidia longipes Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
- ^ a b "Fidia longipes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
- ^ "Fidia longipes Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Arnett, Ross H. (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
- White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Gilbert, Arthur J. (2001). "New records, nomenclatural changes, and taxonomic notes for select North American leaf beetles". Insecta Mundi. 15 (1): 1–17.