Disonycha Explained

Disonycha is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, containing some 170 species in the Nearctic and Neotropics.^[1]

Selected species

• Disonycha abbreviata
• Disonycha admirabila Blatchley, 1924
• Disonycha alabamae Schaeffer, 1919
• Disonycha alternata (Illiger, 1807) (striped willow leaf beetle)
• Disonycha antennata Jacoby, 1884
• Disonycha arizonae Casey, 1884
• Disonycha balsbaughi Blake, 1970
• Disonycha barberi Blake, 1951
• Disonycha brevicornis Schaeffer, 1931
• Disonycha caroliniana (Fabricius, 1775)
• Disonycha chlorotica (Olivier, 1808)
• Disonycha collata (Fabricius, 1801)
• Disonycha conjugata (Fabricius, 1801)
• Disonycha discoidea (Fabricius, 1792) (passionflower flea beetle)
• Disonycha figurata Jacoby, 1884
• Disonycha fumata (J. L. LeConte, 1858)
• Disonycha funerea (Randall, 1838)
• Disonycha glabrata (Fabricius, 1775) (pigweed flea beetle)
• Disonycha latifrons Schaeffer, 1919
• Disonycha latiovittata Hatch in Hatch and Beller, 1932
• Disonycha leptolineata Blatchley, 1917
• Disonycha limbicollis (J. L. LeConte, 1857)
• Disonycha maritima Mannerheim, 1843
• Disonycha pensylvanica (Illiger, 1807)
• Disonycha pluriligata (J. L. LeConte, 1858)
• Disonycha politula Horn, 1889
• Disonycha procera Casey, 1884
• Disonycha punctigera (J. L. LeConte, 1859)
• Disonycha schaefferi Blake, 1933
• Disonycha semicarbonata (J. L. LeConte, 1859)
• Disonycha spilotrachela Blake, 1928
• Disonycha stenosticha Schaeffer, 1931
• Disonycha tenuicornis Horn, 1889
• Disonycha triangularis (Say, 1824) (three-spotted flea beetle)
• Disonycha uniguttata (Say, 1824)
• Disonycha varicornis Horn, 1889
• Disonycha weisei Csiki, 1939
• Disonycha weismani Blake, 1957
• Disonycha xanthomelas (Dalman, 1823) (spinach flea beetle)

References

• 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

• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
• 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Disonycha Chevrolat, 1837. zin.ru. 9 April 2024.