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Photo#1686146
a red milkweed beetle - Tetraopes femoratus

a red milkweed beetle - Tetraopes femoratus
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, BLM west of Carey Flow, Lincoln County, Idaho, USA
July 1, 2019
found on showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) before it moved to the grass it is seen on in the photo, my guess was Tetraopes quinquemaculatus(?)

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red milkweed beetle
how do you tell the difference between T. femoratus and quinquemaculatus ?