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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) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Blepharida Genus Group » Blepharida » Sumac Flea Beetle (Blepharida rhois)
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Unidentified Bug Larvae - Blepharida rhois
Copyright © 2008 Sally King

Unidentified Bug Larvae - Blepharida rhois
Bandelier National Monument, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, USA
May 10, 2008
Size: tiny
On three-leaf sumac in moist canyon bottom.
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Contributed by Sally King on 8 December, 2008 - 2:59pm
Last updated 25 October, 2011 - 6:31pm

Moved
Moved from Blepharida.
… ADeczynski, 25 October, 2011 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Leaf Beetles.
… Charley Eiseman, 29 July, 2009 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

It has to be Blepharida since
It has to be Blepharida since it has frass piled 7p on its back and is feeding on sumac. I am not sure if B. rhois is present in New Mexico but that is the species here along the Front Range in Colorado. Adults should be present a few weeks after the larvae are seen.
… John Randall Watts, 29 July, 2009 - 8:57am login or register to post comments

Other views?
Do you have any other shots of this that you could add? It reminds me of a chrysomelid larva that has piled some excrement on its back...
… Charley Eiseman, 29 December, 2008 - 5:24pm login or register to post comments

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