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Diabrotica sp.
Seen under a night light at Rancho Naturalista Primary pre-montane Caribbean slope rainforest at 2970ft (900m)
I just created a mission for Diabrotica sp. of Costa Rica and Panama. Unfortunately we cannot include the ones from Mexico as well (out of range). I have created this mission for documentation and ID purposes with the knowledge that we only will have very few examples included. But it is an interesting and beautiful little jewel and maybe, we can help to solve all the ID mysteries...
Please, include all of your Diabrotica in my mission and invite also others to join, but only from this species and within the range! Thanks a lot!
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/6936...
These little guys come in so many varieties! Our Mexican ones are different still - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/216... and
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/359....
Welcome and phew! Yes, these were very hard ones! Didn't get an answer yet, hope they will do...
Phew bayucca, I really, really appreciate all the effort and work you put into ID-ing mine and other people's spottings. A VERY BIG THANK YOU...
Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Lupini, Diabroticina, Diabrotica sp.. Diabrotica tibialis is very close, but color of the legs and pronotum is wrong (Tibialis is chestnut-colored and brownish legs, yours not).
Diabrotica nummuralis/tibialis looks also not bad, however, the antennae should be unicolored yellow, yours is clearely bicolored:
http://idtools.org/id/beetles/diabrotica...
My closestmatch would be this unid species with bicolored antennae, matching size of white spots, but I am missing the whitish patch at the base of the elytrae:
http://idtools.org/id/beetles/diabrotica....
Similar species as yours:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tristanba/8...
I try to get a feedback from the real experts after having checked more than 100 different Diabrotica species!
Spotted on Jul 14, 2013
Submitted on Oct 28, 2013
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