Graphops curtipennis

Short description: Species of beetle

Graphops curtipennis

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Infraorder:  | Cucujiformia
Family:  | Chrysomelidae
Genus:  | Graphops
Species:  |

G. curtipennis

Binomial name
Graphops curtipennis

(F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)[1]

Synonyms

* Eumolpus curtipennis F. E. Melsheimer, 1847
* Phortus creticus Weise, 1899[2]

Graphops curtipennis is a species of leaf beetle.[3][4][5][6] It is found in North America.[3]

According to Daccordi in 1977, the species Phortus creticus, which was originally reported from the island of Crete in Greece, is actually a synonym of Graphops curtipennis, and is not actually found on the island.[2]

## Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Graphops curtipennis:

* Graphops curtipennis curtipennis (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847) i c g
* Graphops curtipennis schwarzi Blake, 1955 i c g[7]

Data sources: i = ITIS,[3] c = Catalogue of Life,[4] g = GBIF,[5] b = Bugguide.net[6]

## References

1. ↑ Melsheimer, F. E. (1847). "Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera of the United States". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3: 158–181. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1659427.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Daccordi, M. (1977). "Coleotteri Crisomelidi dell’Isola di Creta e descrizione di una nuova specie del genere Pachnephorus Redtenbacher (Coleoptera-Chrysomelidae)". Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 4: 81–93.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Graphops curtipennis Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=720860.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Graphops curtipennis species details". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/a86a4a9bfc651fa6f0f68664214369cc.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Graphops curtipennis". https://www.gbif.org/species/1047820.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Graphops curtipennis Species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/254312.
7. ↑ Blake, D. H. (1955). "A study of LeConte's species of the chrysomelid genus Graphops with descriptions of some new species". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 113 (4): 263–301. https://archive.org/details/bulletinofmuseum113harv.

## Further reading

* Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. 2013. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7.

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