Eggplant Flea Beetle
Epitrix fuscula Crotch, 1873
Eggplant Flea Beetle: https://marylandbiodiversity.com/species/19177
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Feeds on "eggplant, potato, horsenettle, tobacco (all family Solanaceae). May be very damaging to root crops in the larval stage and to young seedlings when feeding on the leaves as an adult" (BugGuide).

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Epitrix fuscula
Epitrix fuscula, Oklahoma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Tribe: Alticini
Genus: Epitrix
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E. fuscula
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Epitrix fuscula
Crotch, 1873

Epitrix fuscula, the eggplant flea beetle, is a species of flea beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in North America.[1][2][3]

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  1. ^ "Epitrix fuscula Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  2. ^ "Epitrix fuscula". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-22.

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