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Leptinotarsa peninsularis
Leptinotarsa peninsularis is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Central and North America.
From the article Leptinotarsa peninsularis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
This species appears as a normal leaf beetle shape with 10 segmented antennae with the last five darker brown and the first five light brown. the head is half turtle-shell like and brownish red. the back of the body is round with white stripes forming 2 black dove wing patterned side-wings and an upside down black pine tree shape pattern through the middle.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 310882.