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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) » Eumolpinae » Adoxini » Section Leprotites » Neofidia » Grape Rootworm (Neofidia lurida)
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Beetle - Neofidia lurida
Copyright © 2007 Graham Montgomery

Beetle - Neofidia lurida
Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA
June 11, 2007
Size: ~8-9 mm
I remember seeing this in Bugguide(I think) but I can't find it anywhere. On a grape leaf.
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Contributed by Graham Montgomery on 19 June, 2007 - 11:28pm
Last updated 24 May, 2009 - 2:17pm

Moved
Moved from Fidia.
… v belov, 24 May, 2009 - 2:17pm login or register to post comments

New to the guide
I assume it belongs in Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae, but all hairy representatives we already have here do have shorter antennae.
… Boris Büche, 20 June, 2007 - 3:52am login or register to post comments

 
Fidia sp
I think it is Fidia in Eumolpinae
… Rob Westerduijn, 20 June, 2007 - 10:39am login or register to post comments

 
I agree.
They are, in fact, grape foliage feeders, too.
… Eric R. Eaton, 20 June, 2007 - 2:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks everyone
I could have sworn I saw it before, but oh well. Thanks again!
… Graham Montgomery, 20 June, 2007 - 2:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Name update: Neofidia lurida (Baly, 1863)
According to Kumari et al. 2020
Neofidia lurida (Baly, 1863) comb. nov. and syn. nov.?
.....Fidia viticida Walsh, 1867: 87
https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.654

All former Fidia Baly, 1863 are now Neofidia Strother, 2020
… Hume B DOUGLAS, 20 December, 2021 - 1:43pm login or register to post comments

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