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Colorado potato beetle
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Infraorder:
Cucujiformia
Family:
Chrysomelidae
Genus:
Leptinotarsa
Species:
L. decemlineata
Binomial name
Leptinotarsa decemlineata
Say, 1824[1]
Synonyms[2]
Doryphora decemlineata Say, 1824
Stilodes decemlineata
The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) is also known as the Colorado beetle, the ten-striped spearman, the ten-lined potato beetle, or the potato bug. It is a major pest of potato crops. It is about 10 mm (3⁄8 in) long, with a bright yellow/orange body and five bold brown stripes along the length of each of its elytra. Native to the Rocky Mountains, it spread rapidly in potato crops across America and then Europe from 1859 onwards.[3]
The Colorado potato beetle was first observed in 1811 by Thomas Nuttall and was formally described in 1824 by American entomologist Thomas Say.[3] The beetles were collected in the Rocky Mountains, where they were feeding on the buffalo bur, Solanum rostratum.[4]
^"Leptinotarsa decemlineata". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
^"Leptinotarsa decemlineata, Colorado Potato Beetle: Synonyms". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
^ abSay, Thomas (1824). "Descriptions of Coleopterous insects collected in the late expedition to the Rocky Mountains, performed by order of Mr. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Major Long". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 3 (3): 403–462.; see pp. 453–454: "Doryphora, Illig.: D. 10-lineata".
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