flea beetle

See also: fleabeetle

English

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Noun

flea beetle (plural flea beetles)

1. Any of the small jumping beetles of tribe Alticini of the leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae.

Hyponyms

• Alberta flea beetle (Phyllotreta alberta)
• alligator weed flea beetle (Agasicles hygrophila)
• alder flea beetle (Altica ambiens)
• barley flea beetle (Phyllotreta vittula)
• bladder clawed flea beetles (subtribe Oedionychina spp.)
• Boca Chica flea beetle (Chaetocnema rileyi)
• brassy flea beetle (Chaetocnema concinna)
• bronzy brassica flea beetle (Phyllotreta aeneicollis)
• buttonwood flea beetle (Chaetocnema brunnescens)
• cabbage-stem flea beetle (Psylliodes chrysocephala)
• cloverr flea beetle (Chaetocnema pulicaria)
• corn flea beetle (Chaetocnema pulicaria)
• desert corn flea beetle (Chaetocnema ectypa)
• Du Plessis's flea beetle (Serraphula duplessisi)
• eight-spotted flea beetle (Omophoita cyanipennis)
• hop flea beetle (Psylliodes punctulatus)
• horseradish flea beetle (Phyllotreta armoraciae)
• large-striped flea beetle (Phyllotreta nemorum)
• Lundy flea beetle (Psylliodes luridipennis)
• metallic flea beetles (Altica spp.)
• moss-eating flea beetle (Cangshanaltica fuanensis)
• opulent flea beetle (Chaetocnema opulenta)
• pale-striped flea beetle
• potato flea beetle (Epitrix cucumeris; Psylliodes affinis)
• ragwort flea beetle (Longitarsus jacobaeae)
• small striped flea beetle (Phyllotreta undulata)
• spinach flea beetle (Disonycha xanthomelas)
• spurge flea beetles (Aphthona)
• squash flea beetle (Epitrix cucumeris)
• strawberry flea beetle (Altica ignita)
• striped flea beetle (Phyllotreta striolata)
• striped turnip flea beetle
• sweet-potato flea beetle (Chaetocnema confinis)
• tobacco flea beetle (Epitrix hirtipennis)
• toothed flea beetle (Chaetocnema denticulata)
• tuber flea beetle (Epitrix tuberis)
• turnip flea beetle (Phyllotreta striolata)
• western black flea beetle (Phyllotreta pusilla)
• western striped flea beetle (Phyllotreta ramosa)
• willow flea beetle (Crepidodera aurata)

Translations

beetles of tribe Alticini

Danish: jordloppe c Finnish: kirppa (fi) German: Flohkäfer m Italian: altica f Navajo: atʼąąʼ biyaʼ nahachaʼígíí Norwegian: Bokmål: jordloppe m Russian: земляна́я бло́шка f (zemljanája blóška) Swedish: jordloppa c

References

• “flea beetle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• flea beetle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chrysomelidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Chrysomelidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• leaf beetle, leaf-beetle