Disonycha is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, containing some 170 species in the Nearctic and Neotropics.
Selected species
- Disonycha abbreviata
- Disonycha admirabila <small>Blatchley, 1924</small>
- Disonycha alabamae <small>Schaeffer, 1919</small>
- Disonycha alternata <small>(Illiger, 1807)</small> (striped willow leaf beetle)
- Disonycha antennata <small>Jacoby, 1884</small>
- Disonycha arizonae <small>Casey, 1884</small>
- Disonycha balsbaughi <small>Blake, 1970</small>
- Disonycha barberi <small>Blake, 1951</small>
- Disonycha brevicornis <small>Schaeffer, 1931</small>
- Disonycha caroliniana <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small>
- Disonycha chlorotica <small>(Olivier, 1808)</small>
- Disonycha collata <small>(Fabricius, 1801)</small>
- Disonycha conjugata <small>(Fabricius, 1801)</small>
- Disonycha discoidea <small>(Fabricius, 1792)</small> (passionflower flea beetle)
- Disonycha figurata <small>Jacoby, 1884</small>
- Disonycha fumata <small>(J. L. LeConte, 1858)</small>
- Disonycha funerea <small>(Randall, 1838)</small>
- Disonycha glabrata <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small> (pigweed flea beetle)
- Disonycha latifrons <small>Schaeffer, 1919</small>
- Disonycha latiovittata <small>Hatch in Hatch and Beller, 1932</small>
- Disonycha leptolineata <small>Blatchley, 1917</small>
- Disonycha limbicollis <small>(J. L. LeConte, 1857)</small>
- Disonycha maritima <small>Mannerheim, 1843</small>
- Disonycha pensylvanica <small>(Illiger, 1807)</small>
- Disonycha pluriligata <small>(J. L. LeConte, 1858)</small>
- Disonycha politula <small>Horn, 1889</small>
- Disonycha procera <small>Casey, 1884</small>
- Disonycha punctigera <small>(J. L. LeConte, 1859)</small>
- Disonycha schaefferi <small>Blake, 1933</small>
- Disonycha semicarbonata <small>(J. L. LeConte, 1859)</small>
- Disonycha spilotrachela <small>Blake, 1928</small>
- Disonycha stenosticha <small>Schaeffer, 1931</small>
- Disonycha tenuicornis <small>Horn, 1889</small>
- Disonycha triangularis <small>(Say, 1824)</small> (three-spotted flea beetle)
- Disonycha uniguttata <small>(Say, 1824)</small>
- Disonycha varicornis <small>Horn, 1889</small>
- Disonycha weisei <small>Csiki, 1939</small>
- Disonycha weismani <small>Blake, 1957</small>
- Disonycha xanthomelas <small>(Dalman, 1823)</small> (spinach flea beetle)
References
- Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.
Further reading
- Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.