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Casebearer Beetle - Pachybrachis peccans

Casebearer Beetle - Pachybrachis peccans
Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York, USA
June 4, 2006
Size: 3mm

Moved
I think P. peccans is the best fit. See Barney et al's (2013) excellent paper on eastern Canadian Pachys. (They also report that P. peccans is, by far, the most common spp. in E. Can.) (1)

Moved

Pachybrachis sp.
Chrysomelid specialists plead ignorance when faced with making identifications in some sections of this group.

 
Casebearer
Thank you Donald.
Whoops, I did not look at the picture and see that it was not mine.
I assune that mine is the same.

casebearer
Tom is this the same http://bugguide.net/node/view/53603 ?

 
same tribe
but I'm not sure what genus our beetles are in.

 
casebearer
Thanks Tom, at least that gives me some place to put it.

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