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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) » Criocerinae » Lemini » Lema » Lema solani
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Black and Orange - Lema solani
Copyright © 2008 Lee Ruth

Black and Orange - Lema solani
Cass County, Texas, USA
Size: 1/8 inch
I saw several of these today. I have no idea what they are.

Lee
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Contributed by Lee Ruth on 1 May, 2008 - 8:26pm
Last updated 2 July, 2008 - 9:16pm

Moved
Moved from Lema.
… john and jane balaban, 2 July, 2008 - 9:16pm login or register to post comments

Try...
Blue-banded Lema Leaf Beetle (Lema solani)

http://bugguide.net/node/view/40978/bgimage

I found some the other day also but didn't get an ID in ID Request. Mine is a little different than the rest. My specimen has a colored spot on it's pronotum where the rest have no spot.

… Ron M., 1 May, 2008 - 8:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Lema solani
Ron, the spot seems well within variation to me. I think they can both be moved to species level
… Rob Westerduijn, 13 May, 2008 - 12:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Rob.
I moved mine back to species where I had initially placed it. The spot on the pronotum and the orange "stripe" being a little more narrow than the other examples on BugGuide started playing on my mind so I moved it up to genus level waiting on an expert to decide.

Thanks for your input and have a great day!
… Ron M., 13 May, 2008 - 7:18pm login or register to post comments

 
It certainly
looks like the same species. Thanks for the info.

Lee
… Lee Ruth, 2 May, 2008 - 12:01am login or register to post comments

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