Brontispa longissima
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Brontispa longissima is a species in the family Chrysomelidae, order Coleoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia.
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Quick facts about Brontispa longissima
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- Not recorded
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 1 countrysrc for Countries on record
Where does Brontispa longissima live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
Brontispa longissima is listed for 1 country.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
Why a country list is not a range map
Where has it been introduced?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Brontispa longissima as introduced in 14 countries, and flagged as invasive in 11 of them.
- Cambodiainvasive
- Chinainvasive
- Cook Islandsinvasive
- Fijiinvasive
- Laosinvasive
- Malaysiainvasive
- Maldivesinvasive
- Myanmar (Burma)invasive
- Papua New Guineainvasive
- Samoainvasive
- Vietnaminvasive
- Japan
- Thailand
- Tonga
Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).
Is Brontispa longissima endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is Brontispa longissima classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderColeoptera
- familyChrysomelidae
- genusBrontispa
- SpeciesBrontispa longissima (Gestro, 1885)
Synonyms Oxycephala longissima
Relatives of Brontispa longissima
Other species in the same genus Brontispa.
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Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
Where does Brontispa longissima live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list Brontispa longissima for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
Is Brontispa longissima an invasive species?
In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags Brontispa longissima as invasive in 11 countries, including Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Fiji and Laos. It lists it as introduced in 14 in all.
What kind of animal is Brontispa longissima?
Brontispa longissima (Brontispa longissima) belongs to the family Chrysomelidae in the order Coleoptera.
Sources and how to cite this page
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