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Leaf Beetle - Lema daturaphila
Copyright © 2007 Steve Nanz

Leaf Beetle - Lema daturaphila
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
May 28, 2007
Seems similar to examples of Lema daturaphila in Bugguide but the pronotum has a black band near the head and the black stripes in the elytra run into the the yellow stripes.
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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 3 June, 2007 - 4:22am
Last updated 3 July, 2008 - 8:44am

Moved
Moved from Lema.
… john and jane balaban, 3 July, 2008 - 8:44am login or register to post comments

An extreme form of Lema trili
An extreme form of Lema trilinea. Daturaphila is a synonym placed on dark specimens from California.
… John R. Watts, 2 July, 2008 - 9:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Does that mean we should change the name
of the daturaphila page to trilinea? We have a number of images filed under daturaphila here. Are these all trilinea?
… john and jane balaban, 2 July, 2008 - 9:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Unless there has been some na
Unless there has been some name changes since White's revision of the subfamily in 1993 it makes sense to call them all trilinea. Even if daturaphila has been raised to species level it only exists in populations in California and therefore could not be considered valid for eastern population material.
… John R. Watts, 3 July, 2008 - 8:21am login or register to post comments

 
ITIS lists both trilinea and trilineata
as junior to daturaphila. We will move all the images together and leave the name changing to the experts to decide. Thanks
… john and jane balaban, 3 July, 2008 - 8:42am login or register to post comments

 
daturaphila name
see comments from Donald Chandler here
… Rob Westerduijn, 15 July, 2008 - 12:05pm login or register to post comments

that´s because of hatching injury, I guess
note, that the pattern is not symmetric.
… Boris Büche, 3 June, 2007 - 11:11am login or register to post comments

very nice shot
well it is a species of Lema, but like you say it looks some different from typical daturphila. Note the black only merges into the yellow on one elytron. Point to variation
… Rob Westerduijn, 3 June, 2007 - 10:53am login or register to post comments

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