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Cereal leaf beetle

Oulema melanopus

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Field Notes

Description:

Green metallic orange neck insect

Habitat:

Garden

Notes:

Filled with eggs.

Reference Links:

Cereal leaf beetle

Species ID Suggestions

Gastrophysa polygoni

Gastrophysa polygoni
Vincent Hervet
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Cereal Leaf Beele

Oulema melanopus

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bayucca
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Comments (7)
bayucca
Thanks, Vincent! I agree!! How could I mixed them up???
Vincent Hervet
This is actually Gastrophysa polygoni. A gravid female.
bayucca
Common name would be Cereal Leaf Beele.
staccyh
That's really cool, so strange looking!
bayucca
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/37815301974/bochelly-malformalady-this-is-a-juvenile http://www.tierpla.net/insekten-spinnentiere/topic3340-180.html http://www.arthropodafotos.de/dbsp.php?lang=deu&sc=1&ta=t_35_coleo_pol_chr&sci=Oulema&scisp=melanopus/duftschmidi http://www.arthropodafotos.de/dbsp.php?lang=deu&sc=1&ta=t_35_coleo_pol_chr&sci=Gastrophysa&scisp=viridula

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