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Unit tray Labidomera suturella specimens curated at the TAMUIC showing intraspecific variation
Range: Northern Mexico south to Brazil (Blackwelder, 1957).
Adult Activity: April to August based on eight specimens in the TAMUIC
Biology: Choe (1989) found maternal care in this species in Costa Rica.
Similar Species: There are four species of Labidomera, but only L. clivicollis occurs north of Mexico (Arnett et al. 2002).
Abbot P. & L.M. Dill. 2001. Sexually transmitted parasites and sexual selection in the milkweed leaf beetle, Labidomera clivicollis. Oikos 92(1):91-100.
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Baker T.C. & G.C. Eickwort. 1975. Development and bionomics of Chrysomelobis labidomerae...a parasite of the milkweed leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Canadian Entomologist. 107:627-638.
Blackwelder, R.E., 1944-1957. Checklist of the Coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America, part 4. Smithsonian Institution US Natural History Museum Bulletin 185, Parts 1-6. 1492 pp.
Choe, J.C. 1989. Maternal care in Labidomera suturella Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) from Costa Rica. Psyche 96(1-2): 63-68.
Clark, S.M., D.G. LeDoux, T.N. Seeno, E.G. Riley, A.J. Gilbert and 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.
Daccordi, M. & L. LeSage 1999. Revision of the genus Labidomera Dejean with description of two new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae). Pp. 437-461 in: M.L. Cox (editor). Advances in Chrysomelidae biology. Volume I. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. xii + 671 pp.
Dickinson, J.L. 1986. Prolonged mating in the milkweed leaf beetle (Labidomera clivicollis): a test of the "sperm-loading" hypothesis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 18: 331-338.
Dickinson, J.L. 1988. Determinants of paternity in the milkweed leaf beetle. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 23: 9-19.
Dickinson, JL. 1992. Egg cannibalism by larvae and adults of the milkweed leaf beetle (Labidomera clivicollis , Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Ecological Entomology 17(3):209-218.
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Dickinson, J.L. 1996. The behavior and ecology of Labidomera Chevrolat. Pp 323-335 in: P. Jolivet, T. Hsaio, and M.L. Cox (editors) The Biology of the Chrysomelidae, III, SPB Academic Publishing, Amsterdam.
Drummond, F.A., Casagrande, R.A., & Logan, PA. 1988. Behavior of
Chrysomelobia labidomerae Eickwort parasitizing the Colorado potato beetle.
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Labidomera clivicollis. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin. 198 p.
Palmer, J.O. 1982. Photoperiodic effect on size-related metamorphosis in the milkweed leaf beetle,
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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.
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15 Jan 2006 © Mike Quinn / mike.quinn@tpwd.state.tx.us / Texas Entomology / Texas Beetle Information