''Zygogramma arizonica'' is a species of beetle belonging to the family
Zygogramma
''Zygogramma'' is a large genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Chrysomelinae, which includes approximately 100 species. 13 species occur north of Mexico.
Adults and larvae are herbivorous on various host plants. '' Zygogramma exclamationis'' is ...
.
Description
''Z. arizonica'' is a small
leaf beetle
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...
with a brown
pronotum
The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on ea ...
and yellow
elytra
An elytron (; ; , ) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometimes alterna ...
marked with elongated brown stripes and spots.
Distribution and Habitat
''Z. arizonica'' is native to North America.
Adult beetles are associated generally with plants of the family
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
), with a tentative relationship with the American trixis (''
Trixis californica
''Trixis californica '', the American threefold or American trixis, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southwestern United States in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and in Mexico in the stat ...
'').
References
External links
Multiple images of ''Zygogramma arizonica''
Chrysomelinae
Beetles described in 1906
Beetles of North America
{{Chrysomelinae-stub