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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Skeletonizing leaf beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Disonycha » Disonycha caroliniana
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Leaf Beetle - Disonycha caroliniana
Copyright © 2007 Ray Simpson

Leaf Beetle - Disonycha caroliniana
Dixie Plantation, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
June 17, 2007
This looks like Disonycha... can it be brought further?
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Contributed by Ray Simpson on 18 June, 2007 - 12:47am
Last updated 8 July, 2008 - 7:11pm

Moved
Moved from Disonycha c.
… john and jane balaban, 8 July, 2008 - 7:11pm login or register to post comments

Got to look at the front of t
Got to look at the front of the head to be certain on ID but it looks very close to D. caroliniana.
… John R. Watts, 8 July, 2008 - 4:17pm login or register to post comments

Disonycha sp
You´ll need to see more detail of these beetles I´m afraid. The head for example is important, but even than.... It looks close to Disonycha c in the guide. I tried the key from Alabama, but without any succes (even no reddish species at all)
There is a new book out which probably can solve this id, but I don´t have it:

Leaf and Seed Beetles of South Carolina
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae and Orsodacnidae).
(2007. Biota of South Carolina, Volume 4, 246 pages, TB 1104 --
$40.00).

by Janet C. Ciegler

it can be ordered on the Internet, with a
Visa, MasterCard, or Discover at http://www.clemson.edu/psapublishing
[search on “Biota"],
… Rob Westerduijn, 18 June, 2007 - 1:07pm login or register to post comments

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