Kuschelina

Kuschelina
File:Leaf Beetle - Kuschelina floridana, Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest, Felda, Florida - 01.jpg
Kuschelina floridana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Tribe:	Alticini
Genus:	Kuschelina J. Bechyné, 1951

Kuschelina is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are some 30 described species, from the Nearctic and Neotropics.

File:Leaf Beetle - Kuschelina vians, Soldier's Delight, Owings Mills, Maryland.jpg

Kuschelina vians

Selected species

• Kuschelina aemula (Horn, 1889)
• Kuschelina amplivittata (Blake, 1927)
• Kuschelina barberi (Blake, 1954)
• Kuschelina brachyscela (Blake, 1965)
• Kuschelina concinna (Fabricius, 1801)
• Kuschelina discicollis (Crotch, 1873)
• Kuschelina fallax (F. E. Melsheimer, 1847)
• Kuschelina fimbriata (Forster, 1771)
• Kuschelina flavocyanea (Crotch, 1873)
• Kuschelina floridana (Blake, 1954)
• Kuschelina gibbitarsa (Say, 1824) (flea beetle)
• Kuschelina horni (Harold, 1881)
• Kuschelina jacobiana (Horn, 1889)
• Kuschelina laeta (Perbosc, 1839)
• Kuschelina lateralis (Jacoby, 1886)
• Kuschelina lepida (Boheman 1859)
• Kuschelina lugens (J. L. LeConte, 1859)
• Kuschelina miniata (Fabricius, 1801)
• Kuschelina perplexa (Blake, 1954)
• Kuschelina petaurista (Fabricius, 1801)
• Kuschelina rhabdota (Blake, 1954)
• Kuschelina scripticollis (Say, 1824)
• Kuschelina suturella (Say, 1826)
• Kuschelina tenuilineata (Horn, 1889)
• Kuschelina thoracica (Fabricius, 1775)
• Kuschelina ulkei (Horn, 1889)
• Kuschelina vians (Illiger, 1807)
• Kuschelina violascens (J. L. LeConte, 1859)
• Kuschelina weismani (Blake, 1954)

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press.
• Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Vol. Special Publication no. 1. The Coleopterists Society. ISBN 0-9726087-1-0.