Species Pachybrachis spumarius

Pachybrachis spumarius Suffrian 1852

Length 2.4-3.5 mm (2)

Yellow with close, brown, rust or black punctures and spots. Head rusty or black, closely punctate, inner margins of upper eye lobes bordered with yellow; ocular lines absent. Pronotum strongly punctate, lateral margins varying from punctate to impunctate; rusty to black with some smooth yellow spots. Elytra densely confusedly punctate, either with 1 or 2 distinct, partially oblique discal costae, or smoother. Pygidium brown or black with 2 oval yellow subapical, and paired smaller lateral spots. Venter varying from brown to black, 5th abdominal segment greatly yellowish. Legs brown or black with apexes of femora yellow. (2)

e NA to s. TX (TX-FL-QC-SD) - Map (3)(4)(5)(6),

the most commonly coll'ed sp. in Alabama (2), and the second most commonly collected species in eastern Canada and can often be found in large series on Rhus spp. (4)

May-Sept (in AL) (2)

Recorded from a wide variety of plants (7)

Barney, R.J. 2017. Definition and revision of the Spumarius Species-Group of North American Pachybrachis Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 71(3): 449-460. (5)