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Chrysomelidae? - Platydema elliptica
Copyright © 2007 Lew Scharpf

Chrysomelidae? - Platydema elliptica
Auburn, Lee County, Alabama, USA
August 18, 2007
Size: 5 mm length
Suggest this is a leaf beetle of some kind. If so, can anyone think of the genera that have this color pattern?
Contributed by Lew Scharpf on 18 August, 2007 - 4:55pm
Last updated 19 August, 2007 - 10:29am

Tenebrionidae: Platydema ellipticus
One of the prettier tenebs.
… Donald S. Chandler, 18 August, 2007 - 7:22pm

 
Oops
I had just edited my other comment and changed my guess from Tenebrionidae to platydema when I saw that Donald had already ID'd it.
… Graham Montgomery, 18 August, 2007 - 9:02pm

I'm thinking it's aTenebronid.
Maybe something like Platydema?
… Graham Montgomery, 18 August, 2007 - 5:23pm

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