FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE (Leaf beetles) L. LeSage This family is one of the largest group of beetles worldwide with over 50,000 known species and many additional thousands to be discovered especially from Asia and the Neotropics; 566 species and subspecies are listed here for Canada and Alaska. All known adults are phytophagous. Primitive plants and ferns are utilized infrequently and conifers are barely touched; deciduous trees, bushes and weeds are preferred host plants. Some species are pollen eaters in the adult stage. Larvae show a broader ecological diversity: Donaciinae are aquatic; Clytrinae live in ant nests where they feed on plant detritus and on ant larvae or pupae; most Cryptocephalinae feed on decaying matter in leaf litter; Criocerinae, Chlamisinae, Chrysomelinae and Cassidinae and some Galerucinae and Alticinae feed on leaves in the open; those in remaining subfamilies are either root feeders, root miners, stem miners, or leaf miners. The Chrysomelidae are usually classified into 19 subfamilies (Seeno & Wilcox 1982) of which 14 occur in Canada. The leaf-beetle fauna is relatively well-known in eastern Canada (except some alticine, galerucine, and cryptocephaline genera) but is poorly known for western Canada. The present list follows essentially the arrangement proposed by Seeno and Wilcox (1982) except where the generic concepts have been recently modified. AK (41); YK (37); NT (65); BC (178); AB (208); SK (166); MB (254), ON (356); PQ (251); NB (113); NS (102); PE (17); LB (13); NF (32); H (8); I (36) Subfamily DONACIINAE Genus PLATEUMARIS Thomson P. aurifera (LeConte) AK YT NT - AB - MB - PQ - - - - NF P. balli Askevold - - - - - - - - PQ NB - - - - P. chalcea (Lacordaire) - - - BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB NS PE - - lodingi (Schaeffer) shoemakeri (Schaeffer) P. diversa (Schaeffer) - - - - - - MB ON - - - - - - P. flavipes (Kirby) AK YT NT BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB - - LB NF wallisi (Schaeffer) P. frosti (Schaeffer) - - NT BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB NS - - - P. fulvipes (Lacordaire) AK - NT BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB NS - - NF P. germari (Mannerheim) AK YT NT BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB NS - LB NF dives (LeConte) flavipennis (Mannerheim) serricauda (Schaeffer) P. metallica dubia (Schaeffer) AK - - BC AB - - - - - - - - - idola (Hatch) P. metallica metallica (Ahrens) - - - - - - - ON PQ NB NS - - - cataractae (Newman) femoralis (Kirby) gentilis (Leconte) indica (Melsheimer) nana (Melsheimer) parva (Lacordaire) P. nitida (Germar) - - NT BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB NS PE LB NF emarginata (Kirby) juncina (Couper) pacifica (Schaeffer) P. neomexicana (Schaeffer) - - - BC - - - - - - - - - - longicollis (Schaeffer) vermiculata (Schaeffer) P. pusilla (Say) AK YT NT BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB NS - LB NF pyritosa (LeConte) rugifrons (Newman) P. robusta (Schaeffer) - - NT BC AB SK MB ON PQ - - - - - P. rufa (Say) - - - - - - - ON PQ NB NS - - - affinis (Kirby) jucunda (LeConte) kirbyi (Lacordaire) sulcicollis (Lacordaire) Genus DONACIELLA Reitter D. pubicollis (Suffrian) - - - - AB SK MB ON - - - - - - Genus DONACIA Fabricius (Subgenus DONACIA s. str.) Key to North American species: Marx (1957) D. cincticornis Newman - - - - - - MB ON PQ - NS - - - antillarum Suffrian lucida Lacordaire pulchella LeConte rufipennis Lacordaire tenuis Schaeffer tryphera Schaeffer D. palmata Olivier - - - - - - - ON PQ NB NS - - - angustipes Marx claudicans Germar D. parvidens Schaeffer - - - - - - - ON - - - - - - D. piscatrix Lacordaire - - - - - - MB ON PQ NB - - - - alutacea LeConte carolina Lacordaire congener LeConte cuprea Melsheimer D. proxima Kirby - - NT BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB NS - - NF californica LeConte episcopalis Lacordaire D. rufescens Lacordaire - - - - - - - ON PQ - - - - - D. texana Crotch - - - - - - - ON - - - - - - minor Schaeffer (Subgenus DONACIOMIMA Medvedev) D. biimpressa Melsheimer - - - - - - MB ON PQ - - - - - aurichalcea Melsheimer torosa LeConte D. caerulea Olivier - - - - - - MB ON PQ NB - - - - aequalis Say confusa Lacordaire confusa LeConte D. canadensis Askevold - - - - AB SK MB ON PQ - - - - - D. cazieri Marx - - NT BC AB - - ON PQ - - - LB - D. confluenta Say - - - BC AB SK MB ON PQ - - - - - D. cuprea Melsheimer - - - - - SK - ON PQ - - - - - curticollis Knab D. distincta LeConte AK YT NT BC AB SK MB ON PQ - - - LB NF occidentalis Mead D. fulgens LeConte - - - - - SK MB ON PQ NB NS PE - - D. hirticollis Kirby AK YT NT BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB NS - LB NF rudicollis Lacordaire D. limonia Schaeffer - - - - - - - ON PQ - - - - - D. magnifica LeConte - - - BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB - - - - D. megacornis Blatchley - - - - - - - ON - - - - - - megalocera Weise D. porosicollis Lacordaire - - NT BC AB SK MB ON - - - - - - D. pubescens LeConte - - - BC AB SK MB ON PQ - - - - - D. rugosa LeConte - - - - - - - ON - - - - - - D. subtilis Kunze - - - BC AB SK MB ON PQ - NS - - - aenea Ahrens aerea Lacordaire magistrigata Mead quadricollis Say D. tuberculifrons Schaeffer - - - BC - - MB ON PQ NB - - - - Genus NEOHAEMONIA Székessy Key to North American species: Askevold (1988) N. flagellata Askevold - - - - AB SK MB ON - - - - - - N. melsheimeri (Lacordaire) - - - - - - MB ON PQ - - - - - N. minnesotensis Askevold - - - - - - MB ON - - - - - - N. nigricornis (Kirby) - - - BC - - MB ON PQ - - - - - americana (Guérin-Méneville) Subfamily ORSODACNINAE Genus ORSODACNE Latreille Orsodacna Dejean O. atra (Ahrens) - - - BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB NS - - - armeniacae Germar childreni Kirby hepatica Say inconstans Newman luctuosa Lacordaire ruficollis Newman tibialis Kirby tricolor Melsheimer trivittata Lacordaire vittata Say Subfamily ZEUGOPHORINAE Genus ZEUGOPHORA Kunze (Subgenus ZEUGOPHORA s.str.) (Auchenia Thunberg) (Taraxis LeConte) Z. abnormis (LeConte) - - - BC - - MB - - - - - - - kirbyi Baly reineckei Grote Z. atra Fall - YT - BC AB SK MB - - - - - - - Z. consanguinea Crotch - - - BC - - - - - - - - - - Z. multnomah Hatch - YT - BC - - - ON - - - - - - Z. puberula Crotch - - - - - - - ON - - - - - - Z. scutellaris Suffrian+ - - - BC - SK MB - - - - - - - Z. varians Crotch - - - - - - MB ON - - - - - - Subfamily CRIOCERINAE Tribe Criocerini Genus LILIOCERIS Reitter (Subgenus LILIOCERIS s.str.) L. lilii (Scopoli)+ - - - - - - - ON PQ - - - - - liliorum (Thomson) melanocephala (Say) merdigera (Fabricius) Genus CRIOCERIS O.F.Muller Pleurophora Chevrolat C. asparagi (Linné)+ - - - BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB - - - - C. duodecimpunctata (Linné)+ - - - BC AB SK MB ON PQ NB - - - - Tribe Lemiini Genus LEMA Fabricius (Subgenus LEMA s.str.) L. cyanella Linné+ - - - - - ? - - - - - - - - L. gaspensis W.J.Brown - - - - - - - - PQ - - - - - L. palustris Blatchley - - - - - - - ON - - - - - - L. trilinea trilinea R.E.White - - - - - - MB ON PQ - - - - - bilineata Omer-Couper & Miles medionata Schaeffer medionota Schaeffer trilineata auct. L. trivittata trivittata Say - - - - - - - ON PQ - - - - - immaculicollis Chevrolat lecontei Clark nigrovittata Schaeffer trivirgata LeConte Genus OULEMA des Gozis (Subgenus OULEMA s.str.) O. melanopus (Linné)+ - - - - - - - ON PQ - - - - - Subfamily CLYTRINAE Key to New World genera: Moldenke (1981) Key to North American species: Moldenke (1970) Tribe Clytrini Genus ANOMOEA Agassiz Anomoia Chevrolat Euthyna Gistel A. laticlavia laticlavia (Forster) - - - - - - MB ON PQ - - - - - ephippium (Germar) floridana Schaeffer kansana Schaeffer nigripes (Fabricius) obsita (Fabricius) ruficauda (Foersberg) Tribe Megalostomini Genus COLEOTHORPA Moldenke C. dominicana dominicana (Fabricius) - - NT - AB - MB ON - - - - - - C. vittigera vittigera (LeConte) - - - BC AB SK MB - - - - - - - Tribe Babiini Genus BABIA Chevrolat Harpasta Gistel (Subgenus BABIA s. str.) B. quadriguttata quadriguttata (Olivier) - - - - - - - ON - - - - - - biguttata Crotch quadriforis (Newman) Genus SAXINIS Lacordaire (Subgenus BOREOSAXINIS Moldenke) S. omogera omogera Lacordaire - - - - - - - ON - - - - - - S. saucia saucia LeConte - - - BC - - - - - - - - - - Subfamily CRYPTOCEPHALINAE Tribe Pachybrachini Genus PACHYBRACHIS Chevrolat (Subgenus PACHYBRACHIS s.str.) (Pachystylus Rey) P. abdominalis (Say) - - - - AB SK MB - - - - - - - P. alticola Fall - - - - AB - - - - - - - - - P. atomarius (Melsheimer) - - - - AB - MB ON - - - - - - atomus Bowditch infaustus Haldeman P. autolycus Fall - - - - AB - - - PQ - - - - - P. bivittatus (Say) - - - BC AB SK - ON PQ - - - - - albescens Suffrian viduatus Suffrian P. calcaratus Fall - - - - - - - ON - - - - - - P. coloradensis Bowditch - - - - AB - - - - - - - - - sevier Bowditch P. discoideus Bowditch - - - - AB - - - - - - - - - P. donneri Crotch - - - BC - - - - - - - - - - P. hepaticus Melsheimer - - - - AB SK MB ON PQ - - - - - punctatus Haldeman P. luridus (Fabricius) - - - - - - - ON PQ - - - - - aesculi (Melsheimer) femoratus (Say) festivus Fall moerens Stal nigrinus Blatchley P. melanostictus Suffrian - YK NT BC AB SK MB - - - - - - - P. minor Bowditch - - - BC - - MB - - - - - - - P. mnigrum (Melsheimer) - - - - - - - - PQ - - - - - intricatus Suffrian P. nigricornis nigricornis (Say) - - - - AB SK MB - - - - - - - janus Fall P. nigricornis carbonarius (Haldeman) - - - - AB - MB ON - - - - - - P. nigricornis difficilis Fall - - - BC AB SK MB ON PQ - - - - - wahsatchensis Fall P. obsoletus Suffrian - - - BC AB - MB ON PQ - - - - - P. othonous othonous (Say) - - - - - - MB ON PQ - - - - - marginaticollis Randall P. othonous sioux Balsbaugh - - - - AB SK MB - - - - - - - P. othonous pallidipennis Suffrian - - - - - SK - - - - - - - - striatus LeConte P. peccans Suffrian - - - - AB - MB ON PQ NB NS - - - P. pectoralis (Melsheimer) - - - - - - - ON PQ