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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 » Eumolpini » Section Iphimeites » Brachypnoea » Brachypnoea tristis
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Which little beetle, please? - Brachypnoea tristis
Copyright © 2007 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Which little beetle, please? - Brachypnoea tristis
My back garden, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
June 20, 2007
Observed on Rudbeckia hirta 'Prairie Sun'.
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 20 June, 2007 - 1:41pm
Last updated 21 June, 2007 - 11:52am

This appears to be a Dogbane
This appears to be a Dogbane Leaf Beetle, Chrysomelidae. They are usually green to bronze, but western species are blue.
… Scott Nelson, 20 June, 2007 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Brachypnoea tristis
This beetle is not green or blue, is it. It is Brachypnoea tristis, a smaller relative of the Dogbane Leaf Beetle, also in the subfamily Eumolpinae. Note besides the dull colour also the more clubbed antenna and more robust appaerance. Brachyphnoea´s often visit flowers and that´s probably what it was attracted to.
… Rob Westerduijn, 21 June, 2007 - 11:49am login or register to post comments

 
Brown
It is brown.
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 21 June, 2007 - 11:51am login or register to post comments

 
I
do have an Apocynum cannabinum plant growing against the house.
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 20 June, 2007 - 7:09pm login or register to post comments

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