Calligrapha (Zygogramma) exclamationis (Fabricius) Clark & Douglas & Cavan, 2024

Clark, Shawn M., Douglas, Hume B. & Cavan, Daniel J., 2024, Notes on Calligrapha Chevrolat (Subgenus Zygogramma Chevrolat) and Tritaenia Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2), pp. 281-295 : 285

Calligrapha (Zygogramma) exclamationis (Fabricius) , new combination

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Chrysomela exclamationis Fabricius 1798: 86 .

Riley et al. (2003) listed this species from Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Utah. Beyond this, we have examined specimens from Iowa and Wyoming, as well as from Chihuahua, Mexico (BYUC). Host plants are various species of Asteraceae , especially of Helianthus ( Clark et al. 2004) .

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Fig. 1. Dorsal habitus of Calligrapha (Zygogramma) and Tritaenia species. A) C. (Z.) arizonica, B) C. (Z.) conjuncta, C) C. (Z.) pallida, D) C. (Z.) continua, E) C. (Z.) disrupta, F) C. (Z.) estriata, G) C. (Z.) exclamationis, H) C. (Z.) heterothecae, I) C. (Z.) malvae, J) C. (Z.) opifera, K) C. (Z.) piceicollis, L) C. (Z.) signatipennis, M) C. (Z.) suturalis, N) C. (Z.) suturalis, O) C. (Z.) tortuosa, P) T.(Ithygramma) cognata, Q) T.(Tritaenia) quinquevirgata. Scale bars = 2 mm.