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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) » Globemallow Leaf Beetle (Calligrapha serpentina)
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Calligrapha serpentina, red
Copyright © 2010 Sheri L. Williamson

Calligrapha serpentina, red "phase" - Calligrapha serpentina
Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
October 1, 2006
On larval food plant Copper or Narrowleaf Globemallow, Sphaeralcea angustifolia.
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Contributed by Sheri L. Williamson on 24 May, 2010 - 2:25pm
Last updated 16 May, 2011 - 5:22pm

Hi Sheri
I just found a bunch of red ones, too. They were exactly where I've collected green ones last year at the same time of the year. Any idea why they are red? You call it a phase - do you think the same individuals were or will be green?
… margarethe brummermann, 5 September, 2010 - 8:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Hi, Margarethe, According
Hi, Margarethe,

According to this article by Sharman Apt Russell, adults emerge from the pupae red and turn green in about a week:

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… Sheri L. Williamson, 6 September, 2010 - 12:16am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the tip!
A great article. So now I'm sitting here with my 5 red specimens, and hope that they will survive transfer to some locally harvested Mallows. Not the right sp. but it may do to keep the adults alive til they change color. I'm hoping to get photos of intermediate stages (what's between red and green, yellow?) and the end result.
… margarethe brummermann, 6 September, 2010 - 12:55am login or register to post comments

 
I've got a photo of an interm
I've got a photo of an intermediate on Flickr.
… Sheri L. Williamson, 8 September, 2010 - 4:55am login or register to post comments

 
Great
that's interesting. I wish I could find something about the physiology behind these 'nuptial colors'
… margarethe brummermann, 8 September, 2010 - 7:46am login or register to post comments

 
Hi Sheri
I followed the color change of a group of beetles and wrote it up here in my blog
http://arizonabeetlesbugsbirdsandmore.blogspot.com/2010/09/color-changing-leaf-beetles.html
… margarethe brummermann, 24 September, 2010 - 8:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Cool, Margarethe!
Cool, Margarethe! Thanks for the mention.
… Sheri L. Williamson, 24 September, 2010 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

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