Chrysochus cobaltinus? - Typophorus nigritus

Moved

Moved from Eumolpinae.
following specialist´s final statement.

… Boris Büche, 11 May, 2007 - 4:13am

thanks

Boris, thanks for moving some of my id´s
I tried figuring it out several times, but it seems not to work here.

… Rob Westerduijn, 11 May, 2007 - 11:49am

I´m happy to do!

By the way, it works fine. Do you have editor status - if not, that´s the explanation.

… Boris Büche, 12 May, 2007 - 5:50am

no, that´s probably it

That´s probably it. I was told by Jim you didn´t need this...probably not so...

… Rob Westerduijn, 13 May, 2007 - 9:11am

that´s it

You don´t need editor status to move your OWN pics - but for everything else.

… Boris Büche, 14 May, 2007 - 3:23am

Typophorus nigritus

This beetle is known as the sweetpotato leaf-beetle: Typophorus nigritus

… Rob Westerduijn, 12 January, 2007 - 9:47am

Moved

Moved from Leaf Beetles.

… Eric R. Eaton, 5 December, 2006 - 4:43pm

eumolpinae

reminds of Typophorus; surely in the subfamily of oval leafbeetles; Eumolpinae

… Rob Westerduijn, 13 August, 2006 - 2:27pm

likely C. auratus

Assuming this picture was taken in Illinois, this is probably Chrysochus auratus. C. cobaltinus is more western in distribution - Washington, Oregon, etc. (there's a nice map of the two species in an article in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 1-9).

… bugstudent, 4 October, 2005 - 11:11am

No.

I initially thought the same thing, but then recalled a specimen I collected that turned out to be something else (that I can't recall the name of:-).

… Eric R. Eaton, 9 November, 2005 - 2:37pm