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Mantura chrysanthemi
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Copyright © 2013
tom murray
Flea Beetle -
Mantura chrysanthemi
Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 27, 2013
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Contributed by
tom murray
on 28 May, 2013 - 9:36pm
Mantura chrysanthemi (Koch)
Specimen now a photo-voucher. Thanks Tom.
Mantura for sure. I still don't know absolutely sure how to separate the two species. Ed Riley tells me that they should be separable when compared side-by-side, but he's unaware of anything published about the matter.
Comparing the specimens from MA that Tom sent me to a couple from KY (which should be M. floridana), the MA ones have less deeply impressed basal impressions and a somewhat differently shaped lateral margin of the pronotum.
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Brad Barnd
, 5 November, 2013 - 9:01pm
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Moved tentatively; these are among the best-looking alticines
Moved from
Flea Beetles
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dunno why do they look so disproportionately cute to me
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v belov
, 28 May, 2013 - 9:42pm
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