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Monoxia obesula Blake
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Description
Monoxia obesula Blake
MALLORCA—Palma: Es Carnatge, 10.2015, 15 exx. on bushes of Atriplex halimus L. (Chenopodiaceae). This is an invading species of North American origin which had been previously quoted from Sardinia (Clark et al. 2014) and Malta very recently (Mifsud 2016).
Our citation is the third Palaearctic record of this species. The event has probably occurred by trade of ornamental plants.
Notes
Published as part of Petitpierre, Eduard, Sacarés, Antoni & Jurado-Rivera, José A., 2017, Updated checklist of Balearic leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 151-177 in Zootaxa 4272 (2) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/583820
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Blake
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Monoxia
- Species
- obesula
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Clark, S. M., Rattu, A. & Cillo, D. (2014) Monoxia obesula Blake, 1939, a species native to the U. S. A. and adventive to Sardinia, Italy (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Galerucinae Galerucini). Zootaxa, 3774 (1), 83 - 89. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3774.1.6
- Mifsud, D. (2016) A second Palaearctic record of Monoxia obesula (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Galerucinae). Bulletin of Insectology, 69, 159 - 160.