Colorado potato beetle

Summary

Colorado potato beetle is a taxon^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.68% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,512 views/month, #1,321 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• Colorado potato beetle's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• Colorado potato beetle is classified at the rank of species^[4].
• Colorado potato beetle is classified within Leptinotarsa^[5].
• Colorado potato beetle's scientific name is Leptinotarsa decemlineata^[6].
• Colorado potato beetle's Commons category is recorded as Leptinotarsa decemlineata^[7].
• Colorado potato beetle's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Leptinotarsa decemlineata^[8].
• Colorado potato beetle's Commons gallery is recorded as Leptinotarsa decemlineata^[9].
• Colorado potato beetle's main food source is recorded as Solanaceae^[10].
• Colorado potato beetle's main food source is recorded as tomato^[11].
• Colorado potato beetle's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921^[12].
• Colorado potato beetle's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work^[13].
• Colorado potato beetle's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5^[14].
• Colorado potato beetle's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[15].
• Colorado potato beetle's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[16].
• Colorado potato beetle's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[17].
• Colorado potato beetle's has characteristic is recorded as War against the potato beetle^[18].
• Colorado potato beetle is commonly known as {'lang': 'bg', 'text': 'Колорадски бръмбар'}^[19].
• Colorado potato beetle is commonly known as {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'mandelinka bramborová'}^[20].
• Colorado potato beetle is commonly known as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Kartoffelkäfer'}^[21].
• Colorado potato beetle is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Colorado potato beetle'}^[22].
• Colorado potato beetle is commonly known as {'lang': 'eo', 'text': 'Terpoma skarabo'}^[23].
• Colorado potato beetle is commonly known as {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'Escarabajo de la patata'}^[24].
• Colorado potato beetle is commonly known as {'lang': 'et', 'text': 'Kartulimardikas'}^[25].
• Colorado potato beetle is commonly known as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Doryphore'}^[26].
• Colorado potato beetle is commonly known as {'lang': 'it', 'text': 'Dorifora della patata'}^[27].

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Classification

Colorado potato beetle's scientific name is Leptinotarsa decemlineata^[6]. It is classified at the rank of species^[4]. It belongs to the parent taxon Leptinotarsa^[5]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'bg', 'text': 'Колорадски бръмбар'}^[19], {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'mandelinka bramborová'}^[20], {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Kartoffelkäfer'}^[21], {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'it'}^[22], {'lang': 'eo', 'text': 'Terpoma skarabo'}^[23], and {'lang': 'es', 'text': 'Escarabajo de la patata'}^[24].

Identifiers

Colorado potato beetle's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 84778^[28]. Colorado potato beetle's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7539^[29]. Colorado potato beetle's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1171959^[30]. Colorado potato beetle's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 1047536^[31]. Colorado potato beetle's ITIS TSN is recorded as 720110^[32].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Colorado potato beetle include Ribbon of Saint George^[33].

Why It Matters

Colorado potato beetle ranks in the top 0.68% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,512 views/month, #1,321 of 195,241).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for it include Ribbon of Saint George^[33].