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Species Calligrapha verrucosa

Looks like a Potato Beetle with spots, any ideas? - Calligrapha verrucosa

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Chrysomelinae

Genus Calligrapha

Species verrucosa (Calligrapha verrucosa)

Food

Host plant is Salix, willow.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 5 July, 2008 - 10:09am

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