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Copyright © 2007 Scott Nelson

Early Spring Beetle - Calligrapha floridana

Mariana, Jackson County, Florida, USA
March 21, 2007
Size: 8 mm

This beetle flew to my hand while hiking in the woods. I didn't get a chance to see what it might have been feeding on.

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Contributed by Scott Nelson on 24 March, 2007 - 8:33am
Last updated 1 May, 2014 - 8:00am

Moved

Moved from Ontario Calligrapha.

… john and jane balaban, 5 July, 2008 - 11:06am

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Calligrapha floridana and the

Calligrapha floridana and the hosts are Cornus shrubs, but not Cornus florida.

… John Randall Watts, 5 July, 2008 - 10:12am

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not C. amator

As Mike Quinn wrote (in different words) on this page, Calligrapha amator is endemic to Ontario.

There's only 3 species of Calligrapha listed for Florida. This one doesn't look like bidenticola, and it's not cephalanthi, so that leaves only C. floridana but I couldn't find any photos for comparison on the web.

Incidentally, I'm not sure whether the photos from Ontario are correctly identified as C. amator. Mike's comments seem more like guesses than definite IDs (his first guess was C. scalaris), and there's 24 species of Calligrapha recorded from Ontario (not 13 as Mike reported), so that gives a number of additional possibilities.

… Robin McLeod, 23 May, 2007 - 1:53am

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Thanks

Thanks for the correction. It is hard trying to track information on some of these beetles. I had no reference other than the internet and this site. I appreciate the extra information.

… Scott Nelson, 23 May, 2007 - 3:43pm

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This looks like exactly

the same beetle as the previous post. Did you find two of them that day? That was a great day!

… john and jane balaban, 24 March, 2007 - 12:42pm

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