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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) » scalaris group (Calligrapha scalaris group) » Calligrapha confluens
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Calligrapha - Calligrapha confluens
Copyright © 2011 Charley Eiseman

Calligrapha - Calligrapha confluens
Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary, Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 4, 2011
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 8 June, 2011 - 5:52pm
Last updated 26 February, 2015 - 8:37am

almost certainly C. confluens --det. J. Gómez-Zurita
Moved from scalaris group.
… v belov, 26 February, 2015 - 8:37am login or register to post comments

Jesús Gómez-Zurita says: "no clue! C. scalaris group."
Moved from Calligrapha.
… v belov, 7 August, 2012 - 7:25am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
I see... will try to entice the next one of these I see to roll over, then.
… Charley Eiseman, 8 June, 2011 - 7:42pm login or register to post comments

 
usually an obliquely ventral angle is good enough...
...to assess color
… v belov, 8 June, 2011 - 7:53pm login or register to post comments

a thiny bit of epipleuron, pleeease?
… v belov, 8 June, 2011 - 6:01pm login or register to post comments

 
So sorry...
I was leading a nature walk and only had time to snap two basically identical shots of this beetle. For future reference, I'm a bit fuzzy on what the epipleuron is, though I understand it's part of an elytron--are we talking a lateral view, or ventral?
… Charley Eiseman, 8 June, 2011 - 6:12pm login or register to post comments

 
epipleuron
you're right, it's the marginal strip of the elytron usually demarcated by a crease and folded to varying degree, depending on beetle group [accordingly, may be visible on lateral views, but most often, as in this case, from the underside]
… v belov, 8 June, 2011 - 7:34pm login or register to post comments

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