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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Case-bearing Leaf Beetles (Cryptocephalinae) » Cryptocephalini » Cryptocephalina » Bassareus
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Little red white-spotted bug - Bassareus
Copyright © 2007 Dymonsnrust

Little red white-spotted bug - Bassareus
Yalaha, Lake County, Florida, USA
May 15, 2007
Size: 1/16 inch
Found this tiny critter near a dry pond bed in my yard. Can someone ID this one sixteenth of an inch beetle/bug?
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Contributed by Dymonsnrust on 18 May, 2007 - 2:14pm
Last updated 15 May, 2012 - 2:50pm

E.G. Riley says: "I vote for Bassareus"
Moved from Cryptocephalus.
… v belov, 15 May, 2012 - 2:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bassareus.
… v belov, 20 October, 2011 - 7:24pm login or register to post comments

Cryptocephalus, not Bassareus
Cryptocephalus, not Bassareus. I can't give you a species.
… ADeczynski, 20 October, 2011 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Fourteen-spotted Leaf Beetle.
… Mike Quinn, 11 April, 2011 - 12:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from The Casebearers.
… john and jane balaban, 8 July, 2008 - 7:15pm login or register to post comments

Cryptocephalus guttulatus. Th
Cryptocephalus guttulatus. The combination of a pale orange pronotum and dark elytra with pale cream spots is distinctive.
… John Randall Watts, 8 July, 2008 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Not C. guttulatus...
These are C. guttulatus Olivier
Both Det. E. G. Riley, 2009
,

The above photo is Bassareus no?
B. clathratus - or - B. brunnipes??
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… Mike Quinn, 11 July, 2009 - 11:44pm login or register to post comments

Leaf beetle
Something in the Cryptocephalinae.
… Brad Barnd, 18 May, 2007 - 2:18pm login or register to post comments

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