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Dark blue Leptinotarsa haldemani? - Leptinotarsa haldemani

Dark blue Leptinotarsa haldemani? - Leptinotarsa haldemani
Molino Basin, Catalinas, Pima County, Arizona, USA
September 22, 2007
Size: 11mm

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Dark blue Leptinotarsa haldemani - Leptinotarsa haldemani Dark blue Leptinotarsa haldemani? - Leptinotarsa haldemani

Range on color from blue to purple to green...
Thumb of the two other color forms:

 
Thanks, Mike
great series all together. Here (Tucson to Madera) they seem to be mostly blue. Last year (2008) I didn't find any at all, but The AZ Nightshade was also very sparse.

 
Mostly the green variety in CenTex...
I believe we mostly have the green variety here in CenTex...

BTW, Jacques (1988) writes that Solanum douglasii is the preferred host in AZ... (1) Mike

 
That one is around among 15 other sp.
but the beetles were always on silver-grey Solanum leaves