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Tribe Alticini
About 8mm long. I have only seen black-blue ones around here so this one is a surprise.
On eucalyptus leaf at a local parkland surrounded with planted native species.
Chrysomelidae, Galaerucinae, Alticini..
Spotted on May 26, 2013
Submitted on May 26, 2013
7 Comments
;) feels always good to learn new things, I was just guessing so this was a good intuition ;D
Thanks for the links Martin. @ injica you might be right about the eating patterns !! Martin's links show similar at the bottom of the page. Learn something new :)
It does look similar to this one from further north although the size is wrong. It appears to be exotic and a crop pest of cotton. Chaetocnema spp http://www.cottoncrc.org.au/industry/Pub...
Thanks Martin. The light is a bit hard. I haven't been able to find local brown flea beetle species so I'm glad I got it. Suspecting the one that feasts on Patterson's curse. I'll get to checking for it soon.
That must be a small leaf. Nice shot Mark.
I think the tracks are from some much smaller leaf miner - maybe lepidopteran - here's another local one http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/986...
Are this marks left by it while eating? It created a cool map :)