Syphaxia maculata

Syphaxia maculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Syphaxia
Species:	S. maculata
Binomial name
	Syphaxia maculata; Jacoby, 1899

Syphaxia maculata is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Peru.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 13 mm. Adults have black antennae and have two black spots on the thorax. The elytron is greenish with eight fulvous spots.^[2]

References

^ Part of this text is from “New World genera of Galerucinae Latreille, 1802 (tribes Galerucini Latreille, 1802, Metacyclini Chapuis, 1875, and Luperini Gistel, 1848): an annotated list and identification key (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)” by Keezhpattillam Viswajyothi, Shwan M. Clark. This article is licensed under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC BY 4.0 license
^ Jacoby, M. 1889. Descriptions of new species of South American Phytophagous Coleoptera. (Concluded from p. 250). The Entomologist 32: 270–273

[1] Part of this text is from “New World genera of Galerucinae Latreille, 1802 (tribes Galerucini Latreille, 1802, Metacyclini Chapuis, 1875, and Luperini Gistel, 1848): an annotated list and identification key (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)” by Keezhpattillam Viswajyothi, Shwan M. Clark. This article is licensed under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC BY 4.0 license

[2] Jacoby, M. 1889. Descriptions of new species of South American Phytophagous Coleoptera. (Concluded from p. 250). The Entomologist 32: 270–273

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