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Mimic Flea beetle

Walterianella tenuicincta

Description:

Small Leaf Beetle with white elytra and a blue thorax. About 5 mm long. http://naturalista.biodiversidad.co/taxa.... Family Chrysomelidae.

Habitat:

Found at night on the window of a store in Axtla de Terrazas near Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

Notes:

See another color variant of this species from the State of Veracruz, Mexico: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/190...). These species mimic those of Diabrotica.

1 Species ID Suggestions

thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago
Mimic Flea beetle
Walterianella sp.


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5 Comments

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 5 years ago

Thank you thaptor!

thaptor
thaptor 5 years ago

so, this genus also finished! :-)

thaptor
thaptor 5 years ago

= Walterianella tenuicincta (Jacoby, 1886)

original description:
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections...

thaptor
thaptor 5 years ago

= Walterianella tenuicincta (Jacoby, 1886)

original description:
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections...

thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago

mimics Diabrotica sp.

LaurenZarate
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LaurenZarate

San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Spotted on Apr 16, 2015
Submitted on Jan 12, 2016

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