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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 Atysites » Purple Loosestrife Beetles (Neogalerucella) » Black-margined Loosestrife Beetle (Neogalerucella calmariensis)
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beetle - Neogalerucella calmariensis
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

beetle - Neogalerucella calmariensis
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 22, 2004
Size: 1/4"
Is this little beetle a leaf beetle, and any idea what family ?
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Contributed by tom murray on 3 April, 2005 - 4:36pm
Last updated 4 March, 2018 - 3:11pm

Moved
Moved from Galerucella calmariensis.
… tom murray, 29 October, 2007 - 6:02pm login or register to post comments

Thanks Rob!
Moved from Purple loosestrife Beetles.
… tom murray, 1 August, 2007 - 8:02pm login or register to post comments

Galerucella calmariensis
this one is probably also Galerucella calmariensis like your other photo. This one already looks a lot more like pusilla being much lighter than the beetle on your other photo. It has the same black scutellum and dark on the pronotum though.
… Rob Westerduijn, 1 August, 2007 - 6:32pm login or register to post comments

Possibly Diabrotica sp.
Possibly Diabrotica sp.
… Jim McClarin, 23 April, 2005 - 8:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Galerucella?
This is not a Diabrotica. I think Galerucella also from the subfamily Galerucinae.
… Rob Westerduijn, 13 August, 2006 - 3:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks very similar to the other
pictures in the genus page. Thanks again!!!
… tom murray, 13 August, 2006 - 6:52pm login or register to post comments

Chrysomelidae.
Pretty certain this is a chrysomelid.
… Eric R. Eaton, 4 April, 2005 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

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