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Trirhabda ? - Derospidea brevicollis - female
Copyright © 2008 john and jane balaban

Trirhabda ? - Derospidea brevicollis - Female
Bunker Hill Forest Preserve, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
July 29, 2008
Size: ~9mm
There were dozens of these chasing each other around on Xanthoxylum americanum, one of two members of the Citrus family in northeastern Illinois.
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 3 August, 2008 - 5:24pm
Last updated 12 August, 2008 - 10:49pm

Moved
Moved from Leaf Beetles.
… john and jane balaban, 12 August, 2008 - 10:49pm login or register to post comments

Cool! Note the short pronotum
Cool! Note the short pronotum.
… John Randall Watts, 11 August, 2008 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

Quote from John on the other specimen in the guide:
´This is Derospidea brevicollis and feeds on prickly ash (Xanthoxylum). It superficially resembles Trirhabda but the pronotum is shorter than in that genus.´
:)
… Rob Westerduijn, 8 August, 2008 - 11:28am login or register to post comments

 
ID confirmed by S.M. Clark: Derospidea brevicollis (LeConte)
… v belov, 15 November, 2010 - 11:34am login or register to post comments

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