Eggplant Flea Beetle Epitrix fuscula Crotch, 1873    
Kingdom Animalia   >   Phylum Arthropoda   >   Class Insecta   >   Order Coleoptera   >   Family Chrysomelidae   >   Genus Epitrix   

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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).

There are 7 records in the project database.

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An Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (5/8/2019). Determined by Anthony Martin Deczynski and Blaine Mathison via BugGuide. Photo by Steve Scholnick. (MBP list)

Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (8/16/2020). Determined by A. Deczynski/BugGuide. Photo by Jim Moore. (MBP list)

An Eggplant Flea Beetle in Howard Co., Maryland (9/12/2017). Determined by Anthony Deczynski/BugGuide. Photo by Barbara Thurlow. (MBP list)

Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/30/2022). (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY). Photo by Katja Schulz via iNaturalist. (MBP list)

Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (5/15/2023). (c) Jim Moore (Maryland), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Jim Moore. (MBP list)

An Eggplant Flea Beetle in Talbot Co., Maryland (5/16/2015). Determined by Anthony Deczynski/BugGuide. Photo by Ashley Bradford. (MBP list)

Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (5/15/2023). (c) Jim Moore (Maryland), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Jim Moore. (MBP list)

An Eggplant Flea Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/20/2014). Determined by Anthony Deczynski/BugGuide. Photo by Even Dankowicz. (MBP list)


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