The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Coleoptera

(Water Beetles)

 

CHRYSOMELIDAE

Agasicles hygrophila Selman & Vogt

Alligatorweed Flea Beetle


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Distribution Citations

1996 Jasper

2003 Dept. Ent. Tx. A & M
2003-2008 Iowa State Univ.
2007 Galveston Bay Estuary
         Program
[2007 Masterson]

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-Introduced Species: introduced introduced to US to control alligator weed (Masterson 2007), first introduced to Texas rice growing areas in 1967, native to South America; southern Brazil and northern Argentina (Dept. Ent. Tx. A & M 2003)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010

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