Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae > Psylliodes > Psylliodes luridipennis

Psylliodes luridipennis (Bronze Lundy cabbage flea beetle)

Synonyms: Psylliodes chrysocephala var. luridipennis

Wikipedia Abstract

Psylliodes luridipennis, commonly known as the Lundy cabbage flea beetle or the bronze Lundy cabbage flea beetle, is a species of flea beetle endemic to the island of Lundy, where it lives and feeds upon the endemic Lundy cabbage (Coincya wrightii). Along with the true weevil Ceutorhynchus contractus var. pallipes and an undescribed race of flea beetle Psylliodes napi, it is known only from the Lundy cabbage. The species was first recorded by Thomas Vernon Wollaston in the 1840s, and was named by the Austrian entomologist Franz Kutschera in 1864.
View Wikipedia Record: Psylliodes luridipennis

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Psylliodes luridipennis

Prey / Diet

Coincya wrightii (Lundy cabbage)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0