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wheat & black flea beetle - Psylliodes affinis
Copyright © 2007 Jim McClarin

wheat & black flea beetle - Psylliodes affinis
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
April 19, 2007
Size: about 2.5 mm
Found scores of this species so far, among thousands of beetles from at least 19 other families (plus many other arthropods), by pawing and sifting through flotsam from a substantially swollen catchment basin after several days of heavy, non-stop rain:

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 28 April, 2007 - 6:40pm
Last updated 31 January, 2013 - 1:43pm

Moved
Moved from Psylliodes.
Host plant association now confirmed:
… Boris Büche, 13 June, 2007 - 11:09am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flea Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 30 April, 2007 - 9:22pm login or register to post comments

genus Psylliodes
Antennae 10-segmented + other characters. Looks like P.affinis, but I don´t know whether you have another pale species in your fauna (most spp. are metallic)
… Boris Büche, 30 April, 2007 - 10:12am login or register to post comments

 
only pale species
no, this is the only pale species in the north-eastern US
… Rob Westerduijn, 7 November, 2007 - 11:47am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Boris.
I've moved them to genus page.
… Jim McClarin, 30 April, 2007 - 9:14pm login or register to post comments

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