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Grape Flea Beetle
Altica chalybea
39.2572, -96.5717
Field Notes
Description:
An extremely tiny iridescent green beetle. The hind-most pair of legs are much larger than the rest, allowing the beetle to jump like a grasshopper or cricket.
Habitat:
He was found in a mostly-aquatic pond area on some reeds.
Notes:
Definitely Family Chrysomelidae, Genus Altica, and I think the reeds I found him on might actually have been the woody part of a wild grape plant, which might make him Altica chalybea.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedApril 19, 2014
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