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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Case-bearing Leaf Beetles (Cryptocephalinae) » Cryptocephalini » Pachybrachina » Scriptured Leaf Beetles (Pachybrachis) » Black Pachys (Pachybrachis Black Pachys) » Pachybrachis dilatatus
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Casebearer? - Pachybrachis dilatatus
Copyright © 2010 JC Jones

Casebearer? - Pachybrachis dilatatus
Spiderweb, Aiken County, South Carolina, USA
April 16, 2010
Size: ~5 - 6mm
Rescued from the pool.
Maybe something in or near Bassareus?
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Contributed by JC Jones on 16 April, 2010 - 10:11pm
Last updated 24 March, 2016 - 1:47pm

Moved
Moved from Scriptured Leaf Beetles.
… Mike Quinn, 24 March, 2016 - 1:47pm login or register to post comments

E.G. Riley:
"Pachybrachis sp. (as are the other two linked by JC Jones). But the taxonomy of these boldly-marked orange and black eastern USA species is messed up, and I prefer not put species names on them."

Moved from Bassareus detritus.
… v belov, 1 July, 2011 - 8:12pm login or register to post comments

Pachybrachis dilatatus
All 3 images listed as B. detritus appear to be Pachybrachis dilatatus.
… ADeczynski, 30 June, 2011 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

 
VERY good point... thanks for your vigilance, Anthony
i'll ask Ed Riley to check those
… v belov, 30 June, 2011 - 5:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Added some images of a couple
Added some images of a couple other specimens that look like the same thing as this one: here and here

Not sure if it will help any.
… JC Jones, 30 June, 2011 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

 
i'm sure it will
nice pix
… v belov, 30 June, 2011 - 8:16pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bassareus.
… JC Jones, 17 April, 2010 - 6:56am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bassareus detritus.
… JC Jones, 17 April, 2010 - 6:38am login or register to post comments

 
what didn't you like about the ID?
… v belov, 17 April, 2010 - 6:41am login or register to post comments

 
My mistake..
didn't realize you had moved it to species...early morning after a late night kind of thing...
… JC Jones, 17 April, 2010 - 6:56am login or register to post comments

 
i can totally relate to the 'late night kind of thing' thing :)
Fri. morning i was terrified to discover just an ounce of vodka left at the bottom of the 1.75L bottle opened a night before when an ex-student of my wife's stopped by...
… v belov, 17 April, 2010 - 7:05am login or register to post comments

you must be right; nice one, too
Moved from Leaf Beetles.
… v belov, 17 April, 2010 - 5:32am login or register to post comments

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