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  8. Red-shouldered Leaf Beetle

species 1,228 observations

Red-shouldered Leaf Beetle

Saxinis saucia

Status
presumed native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

164 native plants
support it in the US
  • Host plants Plants it lives on or in Blue Oak 1
  • Food plants Plants it feeds on Naked Buckwheat, Seaside Buckwheat, Sulfur Buckwheat, Desert Trumpet 158
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits California Buckwheat, Catclaw Acacia, Silver Bird's-foot Trefoil, Nuttall's Acmispon 5

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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