Hello Hive friends, welcome to my blog.
Today I want to talk to you about Disonycha, a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae.
Scientific classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Bilateria
Infrakingdom: Protosotmia
Superbhylum: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda (insects, arachnids and crustaceans)
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Subclass: Pterygota (winged insects)
Infraclass: Neoptera
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera (beetles and relatives)
Suborder: Polyphaga (water, rove, scarab, long horned, leaf and snout Beetles)
Infraorder: Cucujiformia (weevils, ladybugs and relatives)
Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea
Family: Chrysomelidae (leaf beetles)
Subfamily: Galerucinae (skeletonizing leaf beetles and leaf beetles)
Tribe: Alticini (flea beetles)
Genus: Dysonychia (flea beetle) alternata (Striped Willow Leaf Beetle) (Illiger, 1807)
Species: Disonycha alternata
There are at least 150 described species in Disonycha
Commmon appearance
Size: 4 to 8 mm.
Head. thorax abdomen: red or orange and black with white stripes
Antennae: black
Legs: black and red.
Distribution:
Native of continental US and Canada, so it is surprising to find them here towards the tropics.
This finding was made in Tocuyito, Libertador municipality, Carabobo, Venezuela, in September 19th 2021.
All photos were taken by myself, 
For information I mainly use the articles about Disonycha on Wikipedia, BugGuide and Naturalist.
Thanks for taking the time to read about my find.
God bless
References:
- inaturalist.org/taxa/218598-Disonycha-alternata
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disonycha_alternata
- bugguide.net/node/view/1239474/bgpage