Mantura chrysanthemi (Koch, 1803)

Eiseman, Charles S., 2015, Notes on Leaf-Mining Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) in New England, The Coleopterists Bulletin 69 (3), pp. 453-458 : 456

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https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065x-69.3.453

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scientific name

Mantura chrysanthemi (Koch, 1803)
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Mantura chrysanthemi (Koch, 1803) and Mantura floridana Crotch, 1873

On 20 May in Northfield, Massachusetts (42.646967° N, 72.424858° W), I collected larvae of M. chrysanthemi mining leaves of Rumex acetosella L. ( Polygonaceae ). They fed for at least another four days before burrowing into soil and emerged as adults by 6 June. Comparing the mines with those from which I reared M. floridana on Fallopia scandens (L.) ( Polygonaceae ) ( Eiseman 2014), I do not believe they can be distinguished. However, a difference is apparent in my photographs of the larvae of the two species. Whereas in M. chrysanthemi the abdomen is covered with dark spots that show clearly through the leaf epidermis in my photographs of the mines, these spots are minute in M. floridana and the larva appears to be plain yellow when viewed through the leaf epidermis. The larger lateral spots on M. chrysanthemi are about equal in width to the hind femur ( Fig. 9 View Figs ), whereas on M. floridana they are less than onethird the width of the hind femur ( Fig. 10 View Figs ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Mantura

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