A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
A very small leaf beetle about 6mm long. Red colouring through the elytra. Eyes curved.
Under mercury vapour lamps at a local car yard. This one was on a Mazda :-)
Yet to search for species... Cryptocephalinae are the 'case bearing' leaf beetles... http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_...
Spotted on Sep 2, 2013
Submitted on Sep 3, 2013
3 Comments
Some of these seem to have partially bent eyes but its hard to find a photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/48889105167...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44150996@N0...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/89374715@N0... http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_...
Thanks for that Martin. Rotten photos unfortunately. Did you notice the 'sculptured' eyes? I've also got what looks like a leaf beetle with bent eyes. I thought they all had cute round ones. I suppose the eyes don't wrap around the antennae like in the longicorns.
I see what you mean by longicorn but this is one of the cylinder leaf beetles
They pupate on the ground in a case made of soil and twigs.
Yours is nicely ribbed.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/832...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/207...