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Minute Hooded Beetle - Altica
Copyright © 2009 Robert Lord Zimlich

Minute Hooded Beetle - Altica
Daphne (Village Point Preserve), Baldwin County, Alabama, USA
April 22, 2009
Size: 2-3mm
Assuming this is a Minute Hooded Beetle, might it be Holopsis marginicollis?
Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 22 April, 2009 - 1:54pm
Last updated 22 April, 2009 - 3:29pm

No it's a Chrysomelid
Altica sp. or something like that
… margarethe brummermann, 22 April, 2009 - 3:21pm

 
Got It
Thanks, Margarethe
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 22 April, 2009 - 3:28pm

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