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Calligrapha - Calligrapha rowena

Calligrapha - Calligrapha rowena
Mount Sainte-Anne, Perce, Gaspe Peninsula County, Quebec, Canada
August 22, 2005
Size: 8 mm
Found along a cliff-side trail, on the leaf of a plant which was not identified. This specimen exhibits some asymmetrical patterning on the elytra. I identified it as C. rowena, based on the specimen on the Guide d'identification d'insectes du Québec site.

Bom dia!
Oi! Que besouro bonito! Este site serve apenas para identificar insetos dos Estados Unidos e do Canada. Tem tantos bichos no Brasil que os entomologistas aqui nao sabem os nomes deles. Não seria otimo se os entomólogistas do Brasil iniciariam um site semelhante para documentar os insetos do Brasil? (Aqui nos estados unidos tem um besouro semelhante ao seu -- o “Calligraphy Beetle” – tem este nome porque parece que tem caligrafia escrita no exoesqueleto.)

 
South America
You may want to get in touch with Jim mcClarin. He is in Ecuador now and trying to start a South American Bugguide. A huge task, I wish him luck, being from Argentina myself. It sounds like he got involved in too many things and hasn't done much about this matter in recent times. See:
Bug Guide firsts list for Latin American Bug Guide project

Good luck!


Jesús Gómez-Zurita:
"this poor guy could be C. rowena too, although the elytral patterns are not the typical for this species. However, note that the pattern is actually asymmetrical, which may hint at some abnormal development in this particular specimen, which could explain in turn that the markings deviate slightly from the type. For what we know, these animals have the potential to hybridize, and I suspect some aberrant patterns could indeed be a phenotypic effect of hybrid imbalances. But we don't know yet how to translate this into the actual taxonomy of the group. In any case, if I had to name this specimen, I would name it C. rowena!"

Moved from Calligrapha.

Moved
Moved from Calligrapha rowena.

Calligrapha are notoriously d
Calligrapha are notoriously difficult to identify without host plants. The specimen could just as easily be C. knabi and in fact the spot pattern matches closer to this species if you look at Wilcox 1972.

Moved
Moved from Calligrapha.

Agreed
C. rowena

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