Brown Mint Leaf Beetle

Dutch name: Bruinrood goudhaantje (Chrysolina staphylaea)
Thanks to Wildflower helping out on the ID.
No english wiki

comments (5)

WildFlower

Lion

From what I can see of the legs they look brownish so it could be Chrysolina staphylaea or something else. The legs and pronotum of Chrysolina polita are darker. It looks very shiny, does it have the ridge on the pronotum?
http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds6/insectschrysolinabeetles.htm
http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds4/insectinfocuschrysolinastaphylaea.htm
http://www.coleoptera.org.uk/chrysomelidae/chrysolina-staphylaea
http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/European%20Chrysomelidae/chrysolina%20polita.htm
http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/European%20Chrysomelidae/chrysolina%20staphylea.htm Posted 11 years ago, modified 11 years ago
1. Joost Thissen
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks for taking your time to more thoroughly search the ID, and giving these sites. Although not all of the UK beetles also occur in the Netherlands.
  I went to check my photo's to see if I had a photo with a better view of the pronotum. I didn't, but I did see that during taking the photo's the beetle fell down and I made a picture while it was laying on it's back. Not a very good quality, but I have uploaded it to aid identification. Looking in more detail I think you are (like usually) right and the best match is the Chrysolina staphylaea.
  http://www.jungledragon.com/image/13907 Posted 11 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Thanks for the teamwork both, species created manually. Posted 11 years ago
  2. WildFlower
    
    Lion
    
    My pleasure! I posted those links to the UK sites because they had some great macros and some extra information in English to help Ferdy with the ID. Don't worry though, I also checked some Dutch sites ;)
    http://waarneming.nl/familie/view/302?genus=Chrysolina&s%5B%5D=S
    In fact, your geotag matches 100% with the spread map for this species
    http://waarneming.nl/soort/maps/22579?lang=en&local=nl Posted 11 years ago, modified 11 years ago

Pudding4brains

Lion

Howdy, I'm pretty sure this is one our Neocrepidodera spp. or maybe Sphaeroderma spp - check the long antennae and the blown up hind femora

These are hard to ID from photo, cf. my notes here:
https://waarneming.nl/soort/info/20747?lang=nl
https://waarneming.nl/soort/info/20413?lang=nl Posted 7 years ago, modified 7 years ago