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Beetles (Coleoptera)
Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)

Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)

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Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)

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DiBickers wrote:
3 min ago
The shape of the coloured elytral lines (on the wings) together with the deeply pitted pronotum with dark shading along vertex (back of head) & the splatter of colouring along the lateral pronotum (sides of thorax) extending from the elytral coloured lines are better suited to Calomela vittata.
Calomela vittata
DiBickers wrote:
7 min ago
Verifying as Calomela vittata as per Martin’s ID & explanation above.
Calomela vittata
AlisonMilton wrote:
Yesterday
@clarehoneydove Yes, but I still don't think it is P. cloelia.
Paropsisterna sp. (genus)
DiBickers wrote:
Yesterday
I’ve seen one set of photos extremely similar to this which it was identified as Mecynodera coxalgica & like yours it too was missing the usual solid yellowish lines on the pronotum, upper & mid elytra…. Completely black with only the yellow lines on the elytral shoulders and posterior. I just don’t know this group well-enough to say for sure, so I’ll Verify it at Genus-level with the Suggestion at Species-level.
Mecynodera (Genus)
clarehoneydove wrote:
Yesterday
Looks a bit like the one I found recently doesnt it
Paropsisterna sp. (genus)

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