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Hello.
Can be identified from a photo? Crepidodera sp. ? Found: 22.7.2013, Slovakia-Kosice, 200m a.s.l. Size: ca. 4 mm
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Regards, Karol

Crepidodera aurata (Marsham, 1802)?

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Io non me ne intendo, ma non mi dà la sensazione di una Crepidodera. L'aspetto di insieme mi ricorda piuttosto Altica.
luigi

Ciao Luigi,

comparing with genus Altica will show you, that it is Crepidodera and in here the identification of Gio as Crepidodera aurata. No Altica has got a punctation this rough and in line like Crepidodera on the Elytra. You can also see a depression on the Pronotum on the left and right side of the Basis as Long as approx. one third of the length of the Pronotum. Altica does not have any depression. It's Pronotum is more or less flattened and only very slightly bumpy.

Beside this there is only one member of subfamily Alticinae in Centraleurope and I guess in Southeurope, too, with that colouration: red head, red pronotum and light green Elytra - Crepidodera aurata.

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Klaas

Thank you all