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Flea Beetle

Alagoasa decemguttata

Description:

small beetle

Habitat:

pacific coast rainforest

Notes:

San Cipriano forest reserve.

2 Species ID Suggestions

KeithRoragen
KeithRoragen 11 years ago
Eight-spotted Flea Beetle
Omophoita cyanipennis Eight-spotted Flea Beetle - Omophoita cyanipennis - BugGuide.Net
midara
midara 7 years ago
no common name
Alagoasa decemguttata Alagoasa decemguttata · iNaturalist.org


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12 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Thanks, injica, however we still not know if this one is Omophoita cyanipennis. Personally I don't think. And there is unfortunately no Cyanipennis decemmaculata and we do not now if this would be Cyanipennis octomaculata.

injica
injica 11 years ago

you can add cyanipennis too because the full name of 8-spotted is Omophoita cyanipennis octomaculata, meaning that the name of yours would have just the third word different not octo (8) but decem (10), although I'm not sure whether it goes in Latin by the 1st regular declination adiectivum femina (Omophoita cyanipennis) decemmaculatA or masculinum decemmaculatUS.

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

Thanks bayucca and Keith. I didn't know you had settled on Omophoita as the correct genus, I have updated.

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago
bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Same one, but is the ID correct?? Most of his beetles are not IDed. I still do not think it is Cyanipennis with 10 spots. But thanks for the link!

KeithRoragen
KeithRoragen 11 years ago

Here's a beetle from Ecuador with a similar configuration of 10 spots.
http://coleopteradeecuador.blogspot.com/...

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Decemmaculata exists for beetle, but not for yours...

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

Thanks bayucca, Keith and Yuko. I'm not sure about the links because they only have 8 spots.

KeithRoragen
KeithRoragen 11 years ago

Sorry, that was the wrong link.
http://www.americaninsects.net/b/omophoi...

KeithRoragen
KeithRoragen 11 years ago

Hmm...Well I did check for O. cyanopennis in South America...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7105/68649...

but I will admit to not counting spots carefully enough. :)

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

I would agree with Omophoita, but I am not sure if it is really Cyanipennis. Range is not clear. Bugguide only mentioned US, Central America and Caribbean, not South America. Spots look also somehow different.
There are actually 10 spots! ;-)...
Another genus? Disonycha?
http://www.coleoptera-neotropical.org/pa...

YukoChartraw
YukoChartraw 11 years ago

Such a lovely beetle!

Dan Doucette
Spotted by
Dan Doucette

Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Spotted on Jan 20, 2013
Submitted on Apr 2, 2013

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