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Leaf beetle

Diabrotica sp.

Description:

Escarabajo de la familia Chrysomelidae.

Habitat:

Bosque subtropical perturbado.

Notes:

Autor de la foto: Billo Zamudio Palestino.

2 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Leaf Beele
Diabrotica sp. Unknown spotting | Project Noah
thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago
Mimic Flea beetle
Walterianella biarcuata (cf.) Biologia Centrali-Americana


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4 Comments

thaptor
thaptor 5 years ago

Description (see link) reads closer as the plate I only studied before.

ID confirmed as: Walterianella biarcuata (Chevrolat, 1834)

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

thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago

Pattern of Diabrotica.

Current taxonomy extracted from Mexican species list. It may be not biarcuata, but a closely related species.

Billo-kun
Billo-kun 10 years ago

Don't worry @bayucca :) it's enough for me, to start my investigation about this little friend, thank you!

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Luperini, Diabroticina, Diabrotica sp.. Sorry cannot get closer...
http://idtools.org/id/beetles/diabrotica....

Billo-kun
Spotted by
Billo-kun

Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Mexico

Spotted on Aug 20, 2013
Submitted on Aug 30, 2013

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