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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) » Altica Genus Group » Lysathia » Pale-legged flea beetle (Lysathia ludoviciana)
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beetle - Lysathia ludoviciana
Copyright © 2011 Kim Fleming

beetle - Lysathia ludoviciana
Donalds, Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
December 29, 2011
There were dozens and dozens of these small green beetles, 3-4mm, floating, struggling or crawling amid plant debris and leaves along the edge of the pond here; some alive, some not. Flea beetle?
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Contributed by Kim Fleming on 30 December, 2011 - 3:02pm
Last updated 12 August, 2012 - 4:10pm

Moved tentatively; feeling pretty good about it, though
Moved from Skeletonizing Leaf Beetles and Flea Beetles.
… v belov, 30 December, 2011 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

 
ID confirmed by J.C. Ciegler:
"I've been comparing Lysathia ludoviciana (Fall) and Scelolyperus lithophilus Wilcox. They are very similar. But I think it's Lysathia, because the punctures of the elytra are larger than those on the pronotum, and the pronotum is just a little bit wider. Also the whole beetle is a bit wider. So that's my best guess."
… v belov, 30 December, 2011 - 7:02pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks!
very nice, thanks much! Am out of town for the weekend, so I don't know if the beetles are still there in as many numbers, but it's very nice to have an ID for them!
… Kim Fleming, 30 December, 2011 - 10:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… v belov, 30 December, 2011 - 4:53pm login or register to post comments

Donaciinae?
I might check out Donaciinae if I were you. I'm sure someone will be able to pin the id down further.
… Joe Keller, 30 December, 2011 - 4:21pm login or register to post comments

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