Zeugophora varians Crotch

Eiseman, Charles S., Feldman, Tracy S. & Palmer, Michael W., 2024, New larval host records, parasitoid records, and DNA barcoding data for North American leaf-mining leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea), Zootaxa 5549 (1), pp. 1-60 : 50

Zeugophora varians Crotch

( Figs. 121 , 173 )

Reared specimens. MASSACHUSETTS: Franklin Co., Northfield , 42.646871, -72.426410, 24.viii.2018, em. 13– 19.v.2019, C.S. Eiseman, ex Populus tremuloides , # CSE5260 (3 adults, MLBM) .

Hosts. * Salicaceae : Populus tremuloides Michx. ; all previous records have been of adults on unspecified Populus and Salix ( Clark et al. 2004) .

Biology. Larvae form blackish, upper-surface leaf mines like those of other Zeugophora spp. ( Fig. 121 ). Eight larvae emerged from the five leaves collected; the last of these burrowed into soil on 28 August.

Figures

FIGURES 120–121. Leaf mines of Zeugophora spp. on Populus tremuloides; 120: Z. puberula; 121: Z. varians.

FIGURES 162–173. Chrysomeloidea adults; 162: Dibolia cf. obscura; 163: Mantura floridana; 164: Phyllotreta liebecki; 165: Phyllotreta sp. 2; 166: Monoxia elegans; 167: M. inornata; 168: Monoxia sp. 1; 169: Monoxia sp. 2; 170: Monoxia sp. 3; 171: Yingabruxia brisleyi; 172: Zeugophora puberula; 173: Z. varians.