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Cereal leaf beetle

Oulema melanopus

Spotting Image 1

Description:

Green metallic orange neck insect

Habitat:

Garden

Notes:

Filled with eggs.

2 Species ID Suggestions

Noah Ranger +1
bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Cereal Leaf Beele
Oulema melanopus Cereal leaf beetle
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Vincent Hervet
Vincent Hervet 4 years ago
Gastrophysa polygoni
Gastrophysa polygoni


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7 Comments

Noah Ranger
bayucca
bayucca 4 years ago

Thanks, Vincent! I agree!! How could I mixed them up???

Vincent Hervet
Vincent Hervet 4 years ago

This is actually Gastrophysa polygoni. A gravid female.

Noah Ranger
bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Common name would be Cereal Leaf Beele.

IsabellaFiers
IsabellaFiers 10 years ago

Beautiful shot !!

staccyh
staccyh 10 years ago

That's really cool, so strange looking!

EllaNicuta
EllaNicuta 10 years ago

Thank you!

Noah Ranger
bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Chrysomelidae, Oulema sp. and looks like being Oulema melanopus, female, with eggs, I would say. Parasited beetle would look like this:
http://lampfaced.tumblr.com/post/3781530...
http://www.tierpla.net/insekten-spinnent...
http://www.arthropodafotos.de/dbsp.php?l...
http://www.arthropodafotos.de/dbsp.php?l...

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EllaNicuta
Spotted by
EllaNicuta

Iași, Romania

Spotted on May 29, 2010
Submitted on Oct 27, 2013

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