Oulema melanopus

TaxID: 294584

Basic Information

Oulema melanopus

Cereal Leaf Beetle, Cereal leaf beetle

The cereal leaf beetle (Oulema melanopus) is a significant crop pest, described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Chrysomelidae

Oulema

melanopus

nan

Photos (0 photos)

No photos available.

Morphological Features

Body length 4.5–5.5 mm. Head dark metallic blue; frontoclypeus triangular, punctate and setose, anterior margin more or less straight; frontal grooves very deep, V-shaped; frons with large punctures each bearing a long pale seta; vertex with small punctures, almost glabrous, with distinct median line. Antennae black with antennomeres I and II dark metallic blue. Pronotum orange-red, anterior and posterior margins sometimes thinly black; quadratic or subquadratic, widest at or just before midlength, convex, lustrous; surface glabrous, impunctate. Elytra moderately flat, 1.69–2.05 times as long as wide at humeri, glabrous, lustrous, with 10 striae of large deep punctures (smaller and shallower near base and apex) and a short scutellar stria of 4–6 small shallow punctures. Legs with tibiae slender, slightly tapering basally, densely pubescent except outer side on basal half nearly glabrous, apices with a pair of short, subequal, black-brown spines ventrally; tarsomeres I elongate triangular, shorter than two following combined, tarsomeres II triangular. Abdominal ventrites lustrous, uniformly covered with small punctures bearing pale setae.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Plazi taxonomic treatment

Host Plants (2 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Scientific Name Status
Poaceae Host
Triticum aestivum Host

Quarantine Status (9 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Canada Quarantine pest 2019
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
Egypt Abesent 2018
Greece Quarantine pests —
Guatemala Absent —
Japan Quarantine pests —
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Moldova Quarantine pests —
Peru Absent —

Distribution (51 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

51
Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Bangladesh Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Belarus Present —
Canada Present
Switzerland Present —
China Present
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR24951589 whole insect - - 41429156 Czech Republic

DNA Barcodes (240 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
WFEN2564-24 BOLD:ABW1460 COI-5P 659 United Kingdom 2023-10-16 52.3094, 0.2934
UMAAI2577-22 BOLD:AAO0694 COI-5P 654 France 2022-04-04 43.539, 3.903
TZBCA124-06 BOLD:AAK5928 COI-5P 658 Canada 2006-07-01 49.2501, -84.4998
TDAOE3854-24 BOLD:AAK5928 COI-5P 658 Austria 2023-08-22 48.298, 16.312
TDAAT457-19 BOLD:AAK5928 COI-5P 638 Austria 2019-04-15 47.9326, 16.3253
SMTPO4774-15 BOLD:AAK5928 COI-5P 585 Canada 2015-09-21 43.495, -80.624
SMTPL2621-15 BOLD:AAK5928 COI-5P 591 Canada 2015-04-20 43.495, -80.624
SCAMP5318-24 BOLD:ABW1460 COI-5P 666 United Kingdom 2023-08-15 52.08179, 0.18192115
RRSSA4208-15 BOLD:AAK5928 COI-5P 588 Canada 2015-05-27 43.37386, -80.354
RRNW18790-24 BOLD:ABW1460 COI-5P 655 United Kingdom - 50.77208, -3.909526
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