Eggplant Tortoise Beetle in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. Sam Droege notes that "living specimens are a nice hospital green."
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Sam Droege
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Eggplant Tortoise Beetle collected in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland.
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Sam Droege
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Eggplant Tortoise Beetle collected in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland.
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Sam Droege
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An Eggplant Tortoise Beetle in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (8/6/2014).
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Brandon Woo
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Eggplant Tortoise Beetle in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. Sam Droege notes that "living specimens are a nice hospital green."
Media by
Sam Droege.
Eggplant Tortoise Beetle collected in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland.
Media by
Sam Droege.
Eggplant Tortoise Beetle collected in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland.
Media by
Sam Droege.
An Eggplant Tortoise Beetle in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (8/6/2014).
Media by
Brandon Woo.
Source: Wikipedia
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Gratiana |
| Species: | G. pallidula
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| Binomial name | |
| Gratiana pallidula (Boheman, 1854)
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Gratiana pallidula, the eggplant tortoise beetle, is a species of tortoise beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Central America and North America.[1][2][3]
Adult: in most live individuals, pronotum light green, elytra light golden brown with explanate, transparent margins; color of dead specimens mostly medium brown with lighter brownish-yellow margins; body oblong; elytral margins almost parallel-sided for more than half of their length; elytral disc with many small surface pits arranged in several longitudinal rows.
Larva: may be at least partly green, and carry a fecal shield above its back.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Gratiana pallidula Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Gratiana pallidula". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Gratiana pallidula species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "Species Gratiana pallidula - Eggplant Tortoise Beetle - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
Further reading
[edit]- Borowiec, Lech (1999). A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Biologicae Silesiae. ISBN 978-83-909804-4-7.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7.
External links
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