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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines (Cassidinae) » Chalepini » Odontota » Orange-shouldered Leaf Miner (Odontota scapularis)
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Xanochalepus potomica - Odontota scapularis
Copyright © 2014 JDG

Xanochalepus potomica - Odontota scapularis
Dismal Swamp, Suffolk City County, Virginia, USA
June 15, 2011
Size: 7 mm
Crawling on soil surface.
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Contributed by JDG on 27 October, 2014 - 9:46am
Last updated 27 October, 2014 - 6:23pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles. I think you mean Xenochalepus potomacus (not in the guide yet).

This isn't that species though.
… Brad Barnd, 27 October, 2014 - 6:23pm login or register to post comments

Don't recognize that name??
How about Odontota?
… john and jane balaban, 27 October, 2014 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

 
Odontota correction
Yes, upon more careful consideration of the key in Staines' revision of the hispines, it is Odontota scapularis. Sorry, my mistake.
… JDG, 29 October, 2014 - 12:24pm login or register to post comments

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