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Texas Potato Beetle

Leptinotarsa texana

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) lynettelizzypienaar, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.

United States	137
Texas	133
South Africa	49
Free State	22
Mexico	14
Tamaulipas	14
Eastern Cape	13
Limpopo	9
Oklahoma	4
Spain	1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	Beetles · Coleoptera
Family	Leaf Beetles · Chrysomelidae
Genus	Potato Beetles · Leptinotarsa

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Texas Potato Beetle with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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