''Syneta carinata'' is a species of leaf beetle. It is found in northwestern

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

. The specific name was first used by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz in his collection before 1831, but was never published by him. Instead, the name is attributed to Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, who published a description of the species in 1843.

References

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

External links

NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Syneta carinata''
Synetinae Beetles described in 1843 Taxa named by Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (naturalist) {{chrysomelidae-stub

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