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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 » Altica
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Flea beetle? - Altica
Copyright © 2006 Jim McClarin

Flea beetle? - Altica
Organ Mountains foothills, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
August 6, 2006
This is a lamentable case where I neither measured nor photographed the underside of this beetle. Because of the last, I'm not even sure it's a flea beetle. With what I can see of its femurs from the dorsal view I could go either way. Regarding the former oversight, my guess is that it is somewhere in the 3.5 - 4 mm range. If it were much larger, it would have stuck me as unusually large. If it were much smaller, I could not have gotten the detail I did with my lens.
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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 4 September, 2006 - 9:14pm
Last updated 7 July, 2011 - 9:17pm

Moved
Moved from Flea Beetles.
… Ed Riley, 24 December, 2009 - 6:25pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Leaf Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 22 October, 2006 - 1:23pm login or register to post comments

fleabeetle
yes a fleabeetle. The antenna are situated in between the eyes. This means in galerucinae....thus alticini. The femurs are pretty clearly swollen as well.
Maybe Altica...
… Rob Westerduijn, 22 October, 2006 - 11:44am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Rob.
I've stuck on the tribe page.
… Jim McClarin, 22 October, 2006 - 1:26pm login or register to post comments

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