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What is this? - Acalymma vittatum
Copyright © 2008 Carla Rolfe

What is this? - Acalymma vittatum
Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada
August 30, 2008
Size: smaller than my fingernai
We have these all summer long, and we just wondered what they are.
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Contributed by Carla Rolfe on 31 August, 2008 - 1:05pm
Last updated 31 August, 2008 - 4:05pm

Cucumber Beetle?
None of the ones I've ever seen have well defined stripes like the cucumber beetle, they all look like this.
… Carla Rolfe, 31 August, 2008 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

 
I´m confused...
can you get some more shots, closer by...also check Diabrotica vergifera in the guide. looks like yours has the impressed rows on the elytra typical for Acalymma though
… Rob Westerduijn, 3 September, 2008 - 4:05pm login or register to post comments

Striped Cucumber Beetle
these beetles are the striped cucumber beetles. You can find them in the guide here. This specimen is a bit unusual in that it is darkened in the middle.
… Rob Westerduijn, 31 August, 2008 - 3:29pm login or register to post comments

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