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Alurnus crenatus

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ135975329 ↗
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Alurnus crenatus is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Bolivia.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 22 mm. Adults have a metallic blue-green head, pronotum and legs. The elytron is yellowish with two metallic blue-green spots and a metallic blue-green apical one-third.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alurnus crenatus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.