Definition of Genus Leptinotarsa

1. Noun. Colorado potato beetles.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Leptinotarsa

genus Leontodon
genus Leontopodium
genus Leonurus
genus Lepas
genus Lepechinia
genus Lepidium
genus Lepidobotrys
genus Lepidochelys
genus Lepidocybium
genus Lepidothamnus
genus Lepiota
genus Lepisma
genus Lepisosteus
genus Lepomis
genus Leptarrhena
genus Leptinotarsa (current term)
genus Leptodactylus
genus Leptoglossus
genus Leptopteris
genus Leptoptilus
genus Leptospira
genus Leptotyphlops
genus Lepus
genus Lespedeza
genus Lesquerella
genus Leucadendron
genus Leucaena
genus Leucanthemum
genus Leuciscus
genus Leucocytozoan

Literary usage of Genus Leptinotarsa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1907)
"1* "In this contribution have been brought together data concerning evolution in the genus Leptinotarsa, Stai, as gathered from various sources: [during 11 ..."

2. Fifty Years of Darwinism: Modern Aspects of Evolution; Centennial Addresses by Edward Bagnall Poulton, John Merle Coulter, David Starr Jordan, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Edmund Beecher Wilson, William Ernest Castle, Charles Benedict Davenport, Carl H. Elgenmann, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Granville Stanley Hall (1909)
"The results of the work by Tower, in which beetles of the genus Leptinotarsa were subjected to various combinations and alterations in climatic conditions ..."

3. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1906)
"In the genus Leptinotarsa evolution has been determinate and heritable modifications have been produced only in those directions which are compatible with ..."

4. The Mechanism of Evolution in Leptinotarsa by William Lawrence Tower, Joseph Kumler Breitenbecher (1918)
"... the genus leptinotarsa, affords an opportunity for the investigation of heterogeneity in a highly " variable " organic " character. ..."

5. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1908)
"... Beetles of the genus Leptinotarsa. WL Tower. Carnegie Institute, Washington, 1906. Verhandlungen dkk zool.-bot. Gesellschaft. Wien, LVI, No. lo. Proc. ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... of this kind can be urged against the careful and prolonged studies of Tower on the evolution of chrysomelid beetles of the genus Leptinotarsa. ..."

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