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Leaf Beetle - Cryptocephalus tinctus

Leaf Beetle - Cryptocephalus tinctus
Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
September 30, 2005
Size: 3mm

Looks good
Moved from Cryptocephalini.

Cryptocephalus tinctus
Cryptocephalus becuase of pronotum, which is eqaully wide at both ends in Pachybrachis. This one is narrowed towrds the front. I think it is C. tinctus, becuase it looks very much like the picture of Cryptocephalus tinctus from Cedar Creek.
http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/album/024107025ap.html

nr. Pachybrachis
Am moving to Cryptocephalinae...