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Cassida viridis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a Palaearctic leaf beetle newly recorded from North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2015

Stephen A. Marshall  and
Steven M. Paiero
Stephen A. Marshall*
Affiliation:
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
Steven M. Paiero
Affiliation:
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
*
1 Corresponding author (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Abstract

The Palaearctic leaf beetle species Cassida viridis Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is newly recorded from North America on the basis of recent observations of established populations on Monarda Linnaeus (Lamiaceae) plantings in an Ontario, Canada garden. Historical specimen records show that the species has been in Ontario at least since 1974.

Type
Systematics & Morphology
Information
The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 148 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 140 - 142
Copyright
© Entomological Society of Canada 2015 

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Subject editor: Andrew Smith

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