Phaedon

TaxID: 80248

Basic Information

Phaedon

Mustard Beetle

Phaedon (German: Ph?don oder ber die Unsterblichkeit der Seele), published in 1767, is a book by the Jewish Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, in which Mendelssohn offers a defense of immortality.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Chrysomelidae

Phaedon

nan

nan

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Steve Lane@BY-NC
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(c) Paul Cook@BY
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(c) Paul Cook@BY
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(c) Susan Marley@BY
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(c) Wildlife in a Dorset garden.@BY-NC-SA

Morphological Features

Body length and width not specified. Dorsal side not unicolorous. Head with frons and vertex bearing coarse and sparse punctures; vertex punctures finer and more scattered than those of elytra. Pronotum quadrangular or trapezoidal, lateral margin straight or slightly curved anteriorly; pronotum with sparse and fine punctures, much bigger on lateral sides in some species; pronotum and elytra black, lateral margins of pronotum and elytra yellowish manila in some species. Elytra broader than pronotum at base, slightly broadened after middle; humeri not convex; elytral striae with interspaces smooth and impunctate, with transversal rugosity; ninth stria situated in middle of marginal space, its basal part closer to eighth stria than to lateral margin. Hypomeron, mesoventrite, metaventrite, and abdomen with fine and sparse punctures (dense and coarse in some species). Legs not described.

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

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR29909532 whole body 3rd instar larva - 20395462 South Korea
SRR29909531 whole body adult male - 19942542 South Korea
SRR29909530 whole body adult female - 26384568 South Korea

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature