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Unidentified Bug Larvae - Blepharida
Copyright © 2008 Sally King

Unidentified Bug Larvae - Blepharida
Bandelier National Monument, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, USA
May 10, 2008
Size: tiny
On three-leaf sumac in moist canyon bottom.
Contributed by Sally King on 8 December, 2008 - 2:59pm
Last updated 29 July, 2009 - 3:01pm

Moved
Moved from Leaf Beetles.
… Charley Eiseman, 29 July, 2009 - 3:01pm

It has to be Blepharida since
It has to be Blepharida since it has frass piled 7p on its back and is feeding on sumac. I am not sure if B. rhois is present in New Mexico but that is the species here along the Front Range in Colorado. Adults should be present a few weeks after the larvae are seen.
… John R. Watts, 29 July, 2009 - 8:57am

Other views?
Do you have any other shots of this that you could add? It reminds me of a chrysomelid larva that has piled some excrement on its back...
… Charley Eiseman, 29 December, 2008 - 5:24pm

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