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Calligrapha Beetle - Calligrapha suturella

Calligrapha Beetle - Calligrapha suturella
Fairfield, Somerset County, Maine, USA
August 29, 2010
Please help i.d. this pretty beetle. I was thinking it's Calligrapha vicina or Calligrapha philadelphica?
Thanks

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Calligrapha multipunctata (Say)
This is almost certainly Calligrapha multipunctata (Say) and not Calligrapha suturellaSchaeffer. If you examine the illustrations in Gómez-Zurita, Vogler, & Funk (2004), which revalidated this taxon, you'll see that the subsutural strip and arcuate band are confluent with the sutural stripe in C. suturella and are distinct (as in this specimen) in C. multipunctata. Moreover, the key diagnostic feature is the pale pronotal band which is broad and conspicuous in C. multipunctata (as it is in this specimen), whereas it is thin and narrow (indeed, sometimes reduced solely to pale apical front angles) in C. suturella.

 
see Gómez-Zurita's ID at(1)

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C. philadelphica has a complete dark pronotum usually.

 
Looks
very much like that one!
Thanks

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