A bright yellow-green metallic Leaf Beetle, 8 mm in length, feeding on a leaf at night. This was a very gravid female. Family Chrysomelidae,
This is the tiniest weevil I've seen yet, at only 2 mm, not even discernible as a weevil without magnification. It is black-brown and covered in kinky little hairs arranged in rows down the elytra (best seen in the third picture). The antennae and tarsi are orange-brown. It plays dead for long periods. Family Curculionidae, subfamily Cryptorhynchinae (Hidden Snout Weevils), subtribe Tylodina. Boris Büche writes "These are Acalles (genus) type weevils which are typical litter weevils, flightless and with cryptic colouration. The larvae develop in twigs and small branches in the forest litter."
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A bright yellow-green metallic Leaf Beetle, 8 mm in length, feeding on a leaf at night. This was a very gravid female. Family Chrysomelidae,
Herb 33 cm high.
