Texas Beetle Information

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Banded Cucumber Beetle

Diabrotica balteata LeConte, 1865

Family Chrysomelidae, Subfamily Galerucinae, Tribe Luperini

cf. D. barberi, D. tibialis, D. undecimpunctata

Mission, Hidalgo Co., Texas
November 08, 2004 (M Stangeland & K Davis)

Texas County Records for Diabrotica balteata

County Record Data from E.G. Riley, Dec. 2005

Range: Southern United States to Colombia, Venezuela

Adult Activity: Year round in south Texas

Hosts: Nearly omnivorous, all plant parts are attacked, but the larvae feed only on the roots.

Similar Species: This genus includes more than 350 described species, eight of which occur north of Mexico.

Texas Taxa:

Diabrotica barberi R. Smith & Lawrence
Diabrotica balteata LeConte
Diabrotica cristata (Harris)
Diabrotica lemniscata LeConte
Diabrotica longicornis (Say)
Diabrotica tibialis Jacoby
Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber
Diabrotica virgifera zeae Krysan & R. Smith

Weblinks:

banded cucumber beetle - John L. Capinera, University of Florida
Diabrotica balteata - Pest and Diseases Image Library (PaDIL)

Photos:

Diabrotica balteata

References:

Arnett, R.H., Jr., M.C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley & J.H. Frank. (editors). 2002. American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 861 pp.

Branson, T.F. & J.L. Krysan, 1987. Laboratory biology of Diabrotica tibialis and a closely related Diabrotica species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 60(3): 446-450.

Clark, S.M., D.G. LeDoux, T.N. Seeno, E.G. Riley, A.J. Gilbert & J.M. Sullivan. 2004. Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, Chrysomelidae exclusive of Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.

Jacoby, M. 1887. Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta, Coleoptera, Galerucidae, 6(1):497-584.

Krysan, J. 1986. Introduction: Biology, distribution, and identification of pest Diabrotica. Pages 1-24 In: J.L. Krysan & T.A. Miller (editors). Methods for the Study of Pest Diabrotica. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Lawson, F.A. 1991. Chrysomelidae. Pages: 568-585 In: F. W. Stehr, (editor) Immature Insects Vol. 2. Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa.

LeConte, J.L. 1865. On the species of Galeruca and allied genera inhabiting North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 17:204-222.

Marsh, H.O. 1912. Biologic notes on some species of Diabrotica in southern Texas. USDA Bureau of Entomology Bulletin 82: 76-84.

Riley, E.G., S.M. Clark, & T.N. Seeno. 2003. Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 1, 290 pp.

Saba, F. 1970. Host plant spectrum and temperature limitations of Diabrotica balteata. Canadian Entomologist 102: 684-691.

Smith, R.F., & J.F. Lawrence. 1967. Clarification of the status of the type specimens of Diabrotica (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae). University of California Publications in Entomology, Vol. 45. University of California Press, Berkeley.