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Shiny Flea Beetle - Asphaera lustrans
Copyright © 2013 Gregg Lee

Shiny Flea Beetle - Asphaera lustrans
32.1306, -97.8593, Somervell County, Texas, USA
May 10, 2013
Size: about 1cm
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Contributed by Gregg Lee on 12 May, 2013 - 3:01pm
Last updated 7 April, 2016 - 3:17am

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The larvae of Phyllobrotica are subterranean. These larvae are likely those of the flea beetle Asphaera lustrans, as species that also feeds of skullcap (Scutellaria spp., Lamiaceae).
… Ed Riley, 15 September, 2013 - 5:50pm login or register to post comments

 
OK. (I did say tentative nee
OK. (I did say tentative needing confirmation.)

A month or so after I posted these, I saw adults of Asphaera lustrans on Scutellaria drummondii, and also on many other plants. (I don't think I have posted any of those images.) At that time I did identify them as Asphaera lustrans adults but when I looked at images of their larvae, for example http://bugguide.net/node/view/466815, none of the images on bugguide had the all-black shiny head of the ones I posted. So I left mine where they were, still marked tentative.

I will clean up the thumb links between images and edit text in the next couple days.
… Gregg Lee, 15 September, 2013 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

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