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Large rounded Leaf Beetle, about 1 cm, dark metallic green. Family Chrysomelidae. Maybe Phaedon cochleariae, the Mustard Leaf Beetle.
On a mossy rock. Barranca de Metlac near Fortin de Las Flores, Veracruz, Mexico.
about double the size of a Phaedon.
This appears to be a fairly common species in northern Mexico, ranging south just into Veracruz. Food: Solanaceae.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/125317
Martin, this looks very much like Phaedon cochleariae, the Mustard Leaf Beetle. It seems to have a very large distribution because it can feed on so many plants and has probably been transported everywhere in vegetables.
Nice.
Those clubbed antennae will be significant.
I'm going to guess Phaedon sp.instead of Chrysolina but have little experience with those rotund ones...
Check this list. http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonsubtaxa/id1...
I added all the Australian ones (Paropsis; Paropsisterna; Peltoschema).
Spotted on Apr 14, 2015
Submitted on Nov 15, 2015
