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Poplar Blackmine Beetle (Zeugophora scutellaris)
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Copyright © 2013
Lynette Elliott
small black and orange beetle -
Zeugophora scutellaris
Enumclaw, King County, Washington, USA
May 11, 2012
Found on buttercup.
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Contributed by
Lynette Elliott
on 26 January, 2013 - 12:53pm
Last updated 31 January, 2013 - 10:36am
Lynette,
Yesterday I caught the first member of this family I've encountered. Rob Westerduijn spotted it high on some foliage and I had a long-handled net. He got some live photos of it and has the specimen. He says they are rarely encountered. He searches for leaf beetles practically every day and is lucky if he finds one a month.
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Jim McClarin
, 16 March, 2014 - 2:13pm
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Poplar Blackmine Beetle (Zeugophora scutellaris)
Hi Jim. Very cool. What species did you catch?
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Lynette Elliott
, 16 March, 2014 - 2:53pm
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Rob has the specimen and is going to key it out
when he gets home. I wouldn't be surprised if it's new to science however, as a great deal of what I'm finding here is. Scores of new species and over a dozen new genera according to my specialists.
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Jim McClarin
, 17 March, 2014 - 11:44am
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v belov
, 31 January, 2013 - 10:36am
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looks a lot like the European Z. subspinosa... or scutellaris...
...but i'm sure any number of the nearctic congeners would look like this, too...
nice bugs, but taxonomy is a mess.
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v belov
, 26 January, 2013 - 1:28pm
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Zeugophora
Thanks v! It's a new one for me.
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Lynette Elliott
, 26 January, 2013 - 1:39pm
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turns out, Z. scutellaris was indeed intro'd...
...and seems to be widespread both along the Pacific and east to MB in Canada --but, with 4 more spp. recorded in each of BC
(
1
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and CA
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2
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, we'd need a bit more than that to make that call
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v belov
, 26 January, 2013 - 2:22pm
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ID confirmed by A.J. Gilbert: "Looks like Zeugophora scutellaris
"...Suffrian, 1840. I have a single specimen in my collection aslo from King County, Washington."
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v belov
, 31 January, 2013 - 10:37am
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Poplar Blackmine Beetle (Zeugophora scutellaris)
Great. Thanks for all the help!
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Lynette Elliott
, 4 February, 2013 - 8:17am
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