Phyllotreta liebecki is a species of flea beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in North America.
Classification
Kingdom Animalia: (Animals) Phylum Arthropoda: (Arthropods) Subphylum Hexapoda: (Hexapods) Class Insecta: (Insects) Order Coleoptera: (Beetles) Suborder Polyphaga: (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles) No Taxon: (Series Cucujiformia) Superfamily Chrysomeloidea: (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles) Family Chrysomelidae: (Leaf Beetles) Subfamily Galerucinae: (Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles) Tribe Alticini: (Flea Beetles) Genus: Phyllotreta Species liebecki: (Phyllotreta liebecki)
Size 1.75-2.5 mm (Schaeffer 1919)
Identification Elongate oval. Shining black with sinuate yellow vitta on each elytron, vittae broadly attaining margni at apex. Head, pronotum, and elytra closely punctate.
First 4 antennal segments of liebecki light brown, 5-11 dark brown; male with 5th antennal segment stouter than striolata but less stout than in P. zimmermanni.
Elytral pattern shared with P. robusta; in males, the shape and length of antennal segment 5 is different: only slightly shorter than 2-4, dilated apically, but not with internal process like in P. robusta.
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