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Altica chalybea
An extremely tiny iridescent green beetle. The hind-most pair of legs are much larger than the rest, allowing the beetle to jump like a grasshopper or cricket.
He was found in a mostly-aquatic pond area on some reeds.
Definitely Family Chrysomelidae, Genus Altica, and I think the reeds I found him on might actually have been the woody part of a wild grape plant, which might make him Altica chalybea.
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