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FOOD-PLANTS AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES OF CALLIGRAPHA IN CANADA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES (COLEOPTERA, CHRYSOMELIDAE)*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. J. Brown
Affiliation:
Ottawa, Ont.

Extract

Twenty-nine species and named subspecies of Calligrapha Chev., including eight species previously undescribed, are listed below with notes on food-plant, distribution, and variability. New names are offered for the hamonyms elegans (Olivier) and similis (Rogers). The records and notes, except those credited to authors, are based almost entirely on material in the Canadian National Collection.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1945

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