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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) » Eumolpinae » Eumolpini » Section Iphimeites » Spintherophyta » Spintherophyta globosa
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oval leaf beetle - Spintherophyta globosa
Copyright © 2013 ophis

oval leaf beetle - Spintherophyta globosa
Randolph, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
June 9, 2013
Size: 3 mm
On sweetfern beside trail in dry oak woods, Blue Hills Reservation
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Contributed by ophis on 17 June, 2013 - 12:13pm
Last updated 24 May, 2014 - 9:32am

Moved tentatively
Moved from Section Iphimeites. Looks more like S. globosa than anything else to me
… Brad Barnd, 8 December, 2013 - 9:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Northern Plantain Flea Beetle. Closest matches:

Brachypnoea


Spintherophyta globosa
… ophis, 17 June, 2013 - 9:04pm login or register to post comments

 
indeed, probably an eumolpine
...and those are very good guesses; no ID potential here, though.
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… v belov, 18 June, 2013 - 12:26pm login or register to post comments

could you please elaborate how was the ID obtained?
from what i see here, this beetle is not even in the same subfamily
… v belov, 17 June, 2013 - 12:49pm login or register to post comments

 
re: could you please elaborate
Now that I look closer I see your point. Nobody's perfect...
… ophis, 17 June, 2013 - 9:02pm login or register to post comments

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