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Yellow and brown-striped beetle - Cryptocephalus
Copyright © 2010 Jeff Goddard

Yellow and brown-striped beetle - Cryptocephalus
Los Olivos, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
October 14, 2010
Size: approx 5 mm
Found just under the flowers of scale-broom.
Contributed by Jeff Goddard on 24 October, 2010 - 6:56pm
Last updated 15 May, 2012 - 2:55pm

Moved
Moved from Cryptocephalus.
… v belov, 15 May, 2012 - 2:55pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Jim McClarin, 24 October, 2010 - 8:46pm

Cryptocephaline leaf beetle
is my guess.
… Jim McClarin, 24 October, 2010 - 8:32pm

 
Not an expert but...
...take a look at Cryptocephalus alternans as a possibility.
… Ron M., 24 October, 2010 - 8:34pm

 
Best match I saw
but another is C. spurs*us
… Jim McClarin, 24 October, 2010 - 8:45pm

 
E.G. Riley says: "alternans, spurcus or cerinus"
… v belov, 15 May, 2012 - 2:56pm

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