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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) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Galerucini » Section Schematizites » Ophraella » Ophraella notata

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Copyright © 2007 Bill Claff

Skeletonizing leaf beetle - Ophraella notata

Wellesley, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
July 21, 2007

I know it's common. I just can't place it :-(
(Maybe not common, let's say abundant at my location at that time :-) )

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Skeletonizing leaf beetle - Ophraella notata

notata - Ophraella notata

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Contributed by Bill Claff on 24 July, 2007 - 9:36pm
Last updated 31 July, 2007 - 5:14pm

Moved

Moved from Ophraella.

… Brad Barnd, 31 July, 2007 - 1:50pm

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Ophraella notata

Well, it might be common, this species is however not in the guide yet. It is Ophraella notata. The short middle vittae are characteristic for this species. Compare here:
http://cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/album/024107085001ap.html

… Rob Westerduijn, 25 July, 2007 - 2:33pm

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Rob

That reference didn't convince me but I'm no expert.
Why not conferta?

… Bill Claff, 25 July, 2007 - 4:31pm

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thanks for the extra photo; not conferta though

conferta never has sutural stripes and the stripes are entire; this comes from a key from Alabama:
Sutural vitta usually present (occasionally obsolescent in O. integra and O. notata) with 3 discal vittae..... 5
Sutural vitta always entirely absent; with 3, usually entire, black discal vittae..... O. conferta

notata has the first discal vitta short, about 2 or 3 times length of scutellum

… Rob Westerduijn, 26 July, 2007 - 2:24pm

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Rob

Sounds good.
I suspect there are some images in the wrong place here though.
(And that's part of what threw me off.)

… Bill Claff, 26 July, 2007 - 3:52pm

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which pictures

which ones do you mean, Bill? I think all beetles now in conferta have entire stripes and also no very small stripe at the base either like yours has.

… Rob Westerduijn, 28 July, 2007 - 11:58am

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more notata

there might be some more notata among the ones to genus level. Noteably the last two pictures

… Rob Westerduijn, 31 July, 2007 - 12:54pm

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Leaf Beetle

Family Chrysomelidae. Genus is Ophraella.

… Brad Barnd, 24 July, 2007 - 10:47pm

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