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Pigweed Flea Beetle (Disonycha glabrata)

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Disonycha glabrata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Disonycha
Species:
D. glabrata
Binomial name
Disonycha glabrata
(Fabricius, 1775)

Disonycha glabrata is a species of striped flea beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It feeds on Amaranthus retroflexus and lays eggs in it. The first stadium (duration of the first instar)for the larvae of this species is 3.6 days. The second stadium lasts 2.6 days following by 2.9 days of the third stadium, during which time the species also spends 13.5 days in the soil.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ R. Hamenway and W. H. Whitcomb. "The Life History of Disonycha glabrata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 41: 174–178. JSTOR 3739256.