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Beetle with black, green, and pale stripes--Lema trivittata? - Lema trivittata

Beetle with black, green, and pale stripes--Lema trivittata? - Lema trivittata
Española, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA
April 17, 2011
Size: 6 mm body length
Not hesitant at all to fly. It took off right after I got the side view.

There was lots of Solanum eleaegnifolium here last year (but I'm pulling it up this year), and I also have Datura wrightii, which hasn't come up yet.

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Beetle with black, green, and pale stripes--Lema trivittata? - Lema trivittata Beetle with black, green, and pale stripes--Lema trivittata? - Lema trivittata Beetle with black, green, and pale stripes--Lema trivittata? - Lema trivittata

probably Lema trivittata --det. S.M. Clark
Moved from Lema.

 
Thanks
to you and S. M. Clark.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

 
Thanks, Vassili.
I think I misread some of the criteria for distinguishing trivittata from daturaphila.

 
not your fault, Jerry: the criteria are hard not to misread
the two spp. are very ill-defined, with lots of virtually unplaceable intermediate forms

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