Biology:Kuschelina

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Short description: Genus of beetles

Kuschelina
Leaf Beetle - Kuschelina floridana, Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest, Felda, Florida - 01.jpg
Kuschelina floridana
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Kuschelina
J. Bechyné, 1951

Kuschelina is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are some 30 described species, from the Nearctic and Neotropics.[1]

Kuschelina vians

Selected species

References

Further reading

  • Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E. et al., eds (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 
  • Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication no. 1. The Coleopterists Society. ISBN 0-9726087-1-0. 


Wikidata ☰ Q14932838 entry