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Mimic Flea beetle
Walterianella tenuicincta
22.51, -100.47
Field Notes
Description:
Small Leaf Beetle with white elytra and a blue thorax. About 5 mm long.
http://naturalista.biodiversidad.co/taxa/310070-Walterianella-tenuicinc….
Family Chrysomelidae.
Habitat:
Found at night on the window of a store in Axtla de Terrazas near Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
Notes:
See another color variant of this species from the State of Veracruz, Mexico:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1907126004/fullscreen).
These species mimic those of Diabrotica.
Reference Links:
Walterianella tenuicincta · NaturaLista
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJanuary 12, 2016
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