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class=3D --Apple-Mail-2--598472933 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Rick & Ken, On 1-Aug-07, at 9:11 PM, Ken MacAulay wrote: > Rick it looks like one of the Calligrapha beetles. > http://bugguide.net/node/view/18888 > I'm sure Chris will i.d. it better. Spot on: Calligrapha confluens Schaeffer (as per my earlier message). By the way, the reason it is called "confluens" is that the sutural and sub-sutural stripes on the elytra are "confluent" unlike some other species of Calligrapha in which these two stripes (along the seam between the two halves of the elytra, and the stripe that is just slightly more medial from the seam) remain separate, for instance in: http://bugguide.net/node/view/125706/bgimage http://bugguide.net/node/view/25390/bgimage It's not a character sufficient to distinguish the species, however, since a number of Calligrapha species have these stripes confluent, for instance Calligrapha rowena: http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/newslides/024107062007apd.jpg Cheers, Chris > Ken MacAulay > Port Mouton, NS _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6 (902) 424-6435 Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. --Apple-Mail-2--598472933 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Rick & = Ken,<DIV><BR><DIV><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span"><DIV>On 1-Aug-07, at = 9:11 PM, Ken MacAulay wrote:</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Rick it looks like one of the Calligrapha = beetles.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A = href=3D"http://bugguide.net/node/view/18888">http://bugguide.net/node/view= /18888</A></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm sure Chris will i.d. it = better.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Spot on:=A0<I>Calligrapha = confluens</I> Schaeffer (as per my earlier message). By the way, the = reason it is called "confluens" is that the sutural and sub-sutural = stripes on the elytra are "confluent" unlike some other species of = <I>Calligrapha</I> in which these two stripes (along the seam between = the two halves of the elytra, and the stripe that is just slightly more = medial from the seam) remain separate, for instance in:<BR><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><A = href=3D"http://bugguide.net/node/view/125706/bgimage">http://bugguide.net/= node/view/125706/bgimage</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://bugguide.net/node/view/25390/bgimage">http://bugguide.net/n= ode/view/25390/bgimage</A></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">It's not a character sufficient to = distinguish the species, however, since a number of <I>Calligrapha</I> = species have these stripes confluent, for instance <I>Calligrapha = rowena</I>:</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/newslides/024107062007apd.jp= g">http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/newslides/024107062007apd.jpg</A>= </DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chris=A0</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCK= QUOTE type=3D"cite"><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ken MacAulay</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Port Mouton, NS</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> = <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT = face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">Christopher Majka = - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Times">1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>B3H 3A6</FONT></P> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">(902) 424-6435 <SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>Email <<A = href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</A>></F= ONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times"= size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>= --Apple-Mail-2--598472933--
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