Systena

Systena
Systena blanda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Tribe:	Alticini
Genus:	Systena Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836

Systena is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 90 described species, found in the New World, mostly in the Neotropics.

Systena frontalis

Systena hudsonias

Selected species

• Systena bitaeniata (J. L. LeConte, 1859)
• Systena blanda F. E. Melsheimer, 1847 (palestriped flea beetle)
• Systena californica Blake, 1935
• Systena carri Blake, 1935
• Systena collaris Crotch, 1873
• Systena corni Schaeffer, 1932 (dogwood systena)
• Systena dimorpha Blake, 1933
• Systena elongata (Fabricius, 1798) (elongate flea beetle)
• Systena frontalis (Fabricius, 1801) (red-headed flea beetle)
• Systena gracilenta Blake, 1933
• Systena hudsonias (Forster, 1771) (black-headed flea beetle)
• Systena laevis Blake, 1935
• Systena laurentia Bechyné, 1955
• Systena lherminieri Bryant, 1942
• Systena marginalis (Illiger, 1807) (margined systena)
• Systena mitis (J. L. LeConte, 1858)
• Systena pallicornis Schaeffer, 1906
• Systena pallipes Schwarz, 1878
• Systena plicata Blatchley, 1921
• Systena sexnotata Fall, 1910
• Systena s-littera (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Systena variata Schaeffer, 1932

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
• Clark, S.M.; Le Doux, D.G.; Riley, E.G.; Gilbert, A.J.; et al. (2004). Host Plants of Leaf Beetle Species Occurring in the United States and Canada. Coleopterists Society. ISBN 9780972608732.
• Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication. The Coleopterists Society. ISBN 0-9726087-1-0.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Systena at Wikimedia Commons