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Beetle id request - Disonycha discoidea
Copyright © 2011 Dan Borzynski

Beetle id request - Disonycha discoidea
Cox Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
May 8, 2011
Size: 1/3" - 1/2"
I've come up with one similar photo:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/19582/bgimage

But looking at the geographic distribution, Dayton would be at the northern end of its range. Even that image looks like it was a tough id so I'm not real sure about this one.
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Contributed by Dan Borzynski on 31 December, 2011 - 10:06pm
Last updated 2 November, 2018 - 4:34am

Moved
Moved from Disonycha.
… Boris Büche, 2 November, 2018 - 4:34am login or register to post comments

Blake (1934) states, that in
Blake (1934) states, that in D. leptolineata the elytral bands can be wider (var. texana), but never fuse to form a discoidal black area.
In D. discoidea, a striped form is known (var. abbreviata), and intergradations were observed by Schaeffer (1919).
Form known from Indiana, and Kentucky(1)
… Boris Büche, 2 November, 2018 - 4:33am login or register to post comments

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