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Subfamily Galerucinae
Some kind of leaf beetle, I presume. It measured about 1cm in length, mainly yellow with the back third of the elytra being dark, showing venation; it seems to have two lateral dimples on the first half of elytra.
Rainforest around Lake Eacham in the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland, Australia.
I'm glad you do :-)
It's great to get some professional help. Being a layman, beetles in particular, are very difficult to ID for the huge number and variety of species out there. Specially places like Australia or Ecuador don't seem to be all that well documented.
Hi Felix!
I really like to contribute to Citizen's science. This way, in insects, nearly all of us professionals started - and most taxonomists keep on, besides their bread jobs.
I became professional identifier, that's what I'm paid for - and doing some extra jobs is fun and a fine exercize :-)
AND: I appreciate beetles as living creatures, though most time I look at dead ones. Life observations are a treasure, we all learn from it.
My assumption: Oidina subtribe, with three genera in Australia:
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn%3Alsid...
genus Ellopidia contains two species named amplipennis and lata - which I guess sounds promising . . .
For an ID, original descriptions, if available, have to be studied.
Spotted on Feb 2, 2009
Submitted on Nov 9, 2016
