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Shiny 4-spotted beetle - Paria opacicollis
Copyright © 2007 john and jane balaban

Shiny 4-spotted beetle - Paria opacicollis
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
August 14, 2006
Size: ~3mm
Founf this shiny beetle sitting on a Quercus bicolor leaf.
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 20 January, 2007 - 4:32pm
Last updated 24 July, 2016 - 9:52pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… john and jane balaban, 22 January, 2007 - 9:32pm login or register to post comments

Chrysomelid beetle
Family Chrysomelidae, maybe genus Paria.
… Brad Barnd, 20 January, 2007 - 6:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Paria opacicollis
from the alabama key:
Dorsum brown-yellow with suture darker brown with black spot on intrahumeral callus and single black spot on disc just before apical declivity. The host for P. opacicollis is oak, Quercus sp.
… Rob Westerduijn, 22 January, 2007 - 11:44am login or register to post comments

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