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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 » Lysathia » Pale-legged flea beetle (Lysathia ludoviciana)
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small beetle - Lysathia ludoviciana
Copyright © 2007 Charles Schurch Lewallen

small beetle - Lysathia ludoviciana
Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
February 21, 2007
Size: aprox. 5mm
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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 21 February, 2007 - 6:04pm
Last updated 12 August, 2012 - 4:08pm

Moved
Moved from Flea Beetles.
… v belov, 14 May, 2009 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

Lysathia ludoviciana is close
Lysathia ludoviciana is closely related to Altica but the lack of the transverse pronotal sulcus and the pale legs separate it from them. Host plants are Ludwigia peruviana and Oenothera sp.
… John Randall Watts, 4 July, 2008 - 9:42am login or register to post comments

 
Lysathia
you´re probably right on Lysathia. I get them here in Peru a lot. Didn´t know they occur so far north though.
… Rob Westerduijn, 4 July, 2008 - 3:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Yeah, Lysathia does have a la
Yeah, Lysathia does have a large range.
… John Randall Watts, 7 July, 2008 - 8:44am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from + Now a tribe (Alticini) of Galerucinae.
… Ethan Friedman, 19 April, 2007 - 7:34am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Leaf Beetles.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 22 February, 2007 - 11:06am login or register to post comments

Altica? flea-beetle
probably a species of flea-beetle in the genus Altica, although I don´t see any depression on the pronotum
… Rob Westerduijn, 22 February, 2007 - 10:53am login or register to post comments

 
leaf beetle
Thanks, Boris and Rob.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 22 February, 2007 - 11:04am login or register to post comments

closer . . .
subfam. Galerucinae.
… Boris Büche, 22 February, 2007 - 10:00am login or register to post comments

Chrysomelid
Leaf Beetle
… Jim McClarin, 21 February, 2007 - 8:18pm login or register to post comments

 
leaf beetle
Thanks.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 21 February, 2007 - 10:01pm login or register to post comments

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