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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) » Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles (Galerucinae) » Flea Beetles (Alticini) » Oedionychis Genus Group » Kuschelina » Kuschelina floridana
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Alticines mating - Kuschelina floridana - male - female
Copyright © 2006 Sean McCann

Alticines mating - Kuschelina floridana - Male Female
Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Florida, USA
May 21, 2006
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Alticines mating - Kuschelina floridana - male - female Alticines mating - Kuschelina floridana - male - female
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Contributed by Sean McCann on 21 May, 2006 - 5:03pm
Last updated 7 July, 2008 - 9:23pm

Moved
Moved from Disonycha fumata.
… Sean McCann, 7 July, 2008 - 9:23pm login or register to post comments

Kuschelina floridana. Shape i
Kuschelina floridana. Shape is too oval for Disonycha. Also note the pronotal pattern. If you collected the specimens check the last tarsal segment. If it is swollen then it is Kuschelina.
… John Randall Watts, 7 July, 2008 - 10:46am login or register to post comments

 
The shot of a single specimen
The shot of a single specimen is not the same beetle and does appear to be Disonycha.
… John Randall Watts, 8 July, 2008 - 3:21pm login or register to post comments

I agree
and I think this is D. fumata so I'm making a page and moving yours there, too.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 3 June, 2006 - 7:00am login or register to post comments

 
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Thanks!
-Sean McCann


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