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Water-lily Beetle (Galerucella nymphaeae)
Photo#1630904
Copyright © 2019
MJ Hatfield
Chrysomelidae, dorsal -
Galerucella nymphaeae
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
June 16, 2018
Live BL trap
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Contributed by
MJ Hatfield
on 28 January, 2019 - 10:26pm
Last updated 19 July, 2020 - 11:46am
Moved
Moved from
Galerucini
.
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v belov
, 19 July, 2020 - 11:46am
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Moved
Moved from
Trirhabda
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Aaron Schusteff
, 2 February, 2019 - 4:12pm
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These guys do a good job of looking like Trirhabda ;-)
...but it turns out they're aren't! ;-)
The simplest character that excludes
Trirhabda
here involves the relative lengths of the 3rd & 4th antennal segments. In
Trirhabda
the 3rd is shorter than the 4th; whereas in the specimen here the 3rd antennal segment is longer than the 4th (cf.
"See Also" on info page
). Below are some genera with 3rd antennal segment longer or equal to the 4th are often mistaken for
Trirhabda
:
Galerucella
,
Ophraella
, and
Xanthogaleruca
Apparently there are 14 species of
Ophraella
in our area, but browsing
BugGuide images
suggests they're nearly all fairly conspicuously striped. The 1st and last thumbnails above look more like yours, and...though dark forms of the latter resemble your post,
Xanthogaleruca
have a distinctive "hour-glass" shape for the central spot on the pronotum (which I think is supposed to be diagnostic...but, as we all know, there are often instances of individuals within a species that don't follow the rules ;-)
Happily, both
Galerucella
and
Xanthogaleruca
are monotypic...and thus knowing the genus gives you the species too! :-)
I'm thinking this is most likely
Galerucella nymphaeae
...from the emargination (i.e. slight indentation or "dip") along the hind edge of the pronotum...and also the fairly sharp "teeth" at the anterior edges of the same.
Yours seems to have both those characters, whereas (as far as I can see) the other two genera don't have both (in particular the emargination). Also, the 3rd and 4th antennal segments in
Xanthogaleruca
are roughly equal. But I'm just going by what I see...I don't know if the emargination is a technical character used in the literature for ascertaining the ID.
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Aaron Schusteff
, 2 February, 2019 - 4:10pm
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