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small black and orange beetle - Zeugophora scutellaris

small black and orange beetle - Zeugophora scutellaris
Enumclaw, King County, Washington, USA
May 11, 2012
Found on buttercup.

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small black and orange beetle - Zeugophora scutellaris black and orange beetle - Zeugophora scutellaris

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.

 
Poplar Blackmine Beetle (Zeugophora scutellaris)
Hi Jim. Very cool. What species did you catch?

 
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.

Moved
Moved from Zeugophora.

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.
Moved from Beetles.

 
Zeugophora
Thanks v! It's a new one for me.

 
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) and CA(2), we'd need a bit more than that to make that call

 
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."

 
Poplar Blackmine Beetle (Zeugophora scutellaris)
Great. Thanks for all the help!

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