Discovery of Crepidodera bella Parry (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini) in Maryland and Redescription

Authors

Ainsley Seago, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and National Museum of Natural History Research Training Program Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, U.S.A.
Steven W. Lingafelter, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, ARS, USDA and National Museum of Natural History, MRC-168, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, U.S.A.

Date of this Version

2003

Comments

Published in J. New York Entomol. Soc. 111(1): 51–56, 2003.

Abstract

Crepidodera bella Parry (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticini), previously known only from Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana, is discovered in central Maryland. This species is sympatric with C. browni Parry on Salix nigra growing along swamps in the McKee-Besher Wildlife Management Area (39°04’300”N, 77°23’00”W). Morphological features of the integument and genitalia are described and compared to C. browni.