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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) » Case-bearing Leaf Beetles (Cryptocephalinae) » Clytrini » Megalostomina » Megalostomis » Megalostomis pyropyga
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Leaf beetle - Megalostomis pyropyga
Copyright © 2007 margarethe brummermann

Leaf beetle - Megalostomis pyropyga
Lower Madera Canyon, Pima County, Arizona, USA
August 2, 2007
Size: about a quarter inch
Mesquite grassland
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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 19 August, 2007 - 6:02pm
Last updated 31 August, 2009 - 11:52am

Moved
Moved from Megalostomis pyropyga.
… margarethe brummermann, 31 August, 2009 - 11:52am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Megalostomis.
… john and jane balaban, 8 July, 2008 - 10:32pm login or register to post comments

Megalostomis pyropyga pyropyg
Megalostomis pyropyga pyropyga. The metallic blue/green and purple are distinct.
… John R. Watts, 8 July, 2008 - 10:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow, Thanks
I had forgotten all about this guy. Yuo are really working your way through all my leaf beetles. I really appreciate that
… margarethe brummermann, 8 July, 2008 - 11:40pm login or register to post comments

 
I aim to please.
I aim to please.
… John R. Watts, 15 July, 2008 - 9:04am login or register to post comments

identified how?
Clytrini is a difficult group, by mny opinion.
… Boris Büche, 22 August, 2007 - 6:39am login or register to post comments

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