Red turnip beetle

Entomoscelis americana · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Chrysomelidae

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Red turnip beetle
Photo: Bob Walker, CC BY

The red turnip beetle is a leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. In 2020 it was determined to be the same species as Entomoscelis adonidis from the Palearctic realm.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

The red turnip beetle belongs to the leaf beetle family Chrysomelidae.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It lives in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range is North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 10 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Alaska, Colorado, Minnesota, Wyoming, Montana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Utah.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Red turnip beetle photo 2
Photo: daksu, CC BY
Red turnip beetle photo 3
Photo: My-Lan Le, CC BY
Red turnip beetle photo 4
Photo: My-Lan Le, CC BY
Red turnip beetle photo 5
Photo: My-Lan Le, CC BY

Same family (Chrysomelidae)

Spotted Cucumber BeetleSpotted Cucumber BeetleDiabrotica undecimpunctataDamages trees, gardens or cropsBean WeevilBean WeevilAcanthoscelides obtectusDamages trees, gardens or cropsCowpea WeevilCowpea WeevilCallosobruchus maculatusDamages trees, gardens or cropsSwamp Milkweed Leaf BeetleSwamp Milkweed Leaf BeetleLabidomera clivicollisDamages trees, gardens or cropsAlder Leaf BeetleAlder Leaf BeetleAgelastica alniDamages trees, gardens or cropsDogbane Leaf BeetleDogbane Leaf BeetleChrysochus auratus

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomoscelis_americana

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-26 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-26.

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