Dead-nettle leaf beetle - Chrysolina fastuosa

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Pudding4brains

Lion

Hi Jivko, I'm pretty sure this should be graminis, not fastuosa, but I'll ask someone more knowledgeable one of these days.
Was it on the waterside? On Mentha aquatica (water mint)?
Same animal here I suppose?:

Posted 7 years ago
1. Jivko Nakev
  
  Lion
  
  Hi Arp,thank you for helping with the right identification. This one - on both photos is the same beetle - is photographed 2 meters away from a water pond. Bulgarian entomologists from a local FB group helped to identify it, but I am not 100 % convinced it is correct. For my great regret I am not in a position right now to make further research - the last couple of months and at least in the next two I am full time engaged in another project in my company. I hardly have time to sleep - I type this answer in 6.00 AM! If you change the ID, please let me now to change the tags and my records here.
  Posted 7 years ago

The Dead-nettle leaf beetle

''Chrysolina fastuosa'', also known as the dead-nettle leaf beetle, is a species of beetle from a family of Chrysomelidae found in Europe, Caucasus and northern Turkey.

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Similar species: Beetles

Species identified by Jivko Nakev