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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) » Chrysomelinae » Chrysomelini » Doryphorina » Calligrapha » subgenus Calligrapha (Calligrapha subgenus Calligrapha) » Calligrapha apicalis
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Silver patchy bug about the size of a ladybug - Calligrapha apicalis
Copyright © 2009 vtmtns

Silver patchy bug about the size of a ladybug - Calligrapha apicalis
Chittenden County, Vermont, USA
June 12, 2009
Hard shell, roughly the size of a ladybug
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Contributed by vtmtns on 17 June, 2009 - 10:29pm
Last updated 10 April, 2011 - 8:34am

Moved
Moved from Calligrapha ignota.
… john and jane balaban, 10 April, 2011 - 8:34am login or register to post comments

This specimen is a member of
This specimen is a member of the species Calligrapha apicalis Notman. Note the pale anterior angles of pronotum. For what we know, this is a female-only species and it feeds on alder.
… Gomez-Zurita, 10 April, 2011 - 3:30am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Calligrapha.
… v belov, 26 November, 2009 - 9:12am login or register to post comments

Calligrapha leaf beetle
I think it is most likely Calligrapha philadelphica.


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But it a bit like C. vicina too. v
… James Bailey, 17 June, 2009 - 10:43pm login or register to post comments

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