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What am I? Lakeview AR May 16. Thanks. Love your site.
Rose Maschek
Hi Again Rose,
We found your beetle on BugGuide, but it is just listed as a generic Leaf Beetle, Family Chrysomelidae. We checked with Eric Eaton and he was unable to provide an exact species based on the photo.
Update (08/22/2006)
Hello Lisa Anne and Daniel, I recently came across your website and I was pleased to see such a vibrant (and well-done) site. I’m an entomologist and evolutionary biologist (specializing on the systematics, taxonomy and evolution of tiger beetles and their close relatives) and I have to say that I’m impressed with your accuracy rate! It’s much, much better than other comparable sites I’ve come across over the years. The two of you must really love insects. I’ll bookmark your site and check it out when I’m having trouble sleeping again!
That is Blepharia rhois, one of the larger species of flea beetles (subfamily or tribe within the leaf beetles). This species feeds on winged sumac and although they are flea beetles, they are unusual because they aren’t very strong jumpers!
Daniel P. Duran
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
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