Derocrepis rufipes

Taxonomy

  • Polyphaga
  • Chrysomeloidea
  • Chrysomelidae
  • Derocrepis
  • Derocrepis rufipes

Description

Size: 2.3-3.8mm
Basic colour: Head, thorax, antennae and legs red to rusty-red; elytra weakly metallic blue, blue-green or bronze-green to blackish-green
Pattern colour: None
Number of spots: None
Pronotoum: Red to rusty-red
Leg colour: Red to rusty-red

Palaearctic.

Biology

Status: Widespread and locally common
Habitat: Various
Host plant: Various Fabaceae
Overwintering: Some uncertainty, but it is likely that adults do not overwinter, while larvae do, completing their development in spring.
Food: Adults on leaves of host plants, larvae at roots.
Other notes: Adults short-winged and probably flightless.

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Crepidodera aurata

Taxonomy

  • Polyphaga
  • Chrysomeloidea
  • Chrysomelidae
  • Crepidodera
  • Crepidodera aurata
Common name
Willow Flea Beetle

Description

Size: 2.5-3.3mm
Basic colour: Elytra bright metallic green, sometimes dark green, bronze, brassy, coppery, rarely bluish.
Pattern colour: None
Number of spots: None
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: Reddish, sometimes gold-green or brassy.
Leg colour: Orange-brown, hind femora dark.

Biology

Status: Widespread & common
Habitat: Various
Host plant: Willows, occasionally other trees
Overwintering: Adults under bark or in moss on logs.
Food: Adults on leaves, larvae on roots.

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Crepidodera aurea

Taxonomy

  • Polyphaga
  • Chrysomeloidea
  • Chrysomelidae
  • Crepidodera
  • Crepidodera aurea

Description

Size: 2.5-3.8mm
Basic colour: Golden green to coppery red, brassy, bronze, sometimes bright green or blue.
Pattern colour: None
Number of spots: None
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: As basic colour

Biology

Status: Widespread in England & Wales, rare in Ireland, probably absent from Scotland.
Habitat: Various
Host plant: Poplars (including aspen), sometimes willows and other trees.
Overwintering: Adults hibernate in grass tussocks
Food: Adults on poplar leaves (possibly the Venturia fungus that grows on then); larvae on poplar roots.

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Crepidodera plutus

Taxonomy

  • Polyphaga
  • Chrysomeloidea
  • Chrysomelidae
  • Crepidodera
  • Crepidodera plutus

Description

Size: 2.5-3.2mm
Basic colour: Coppery-green, brassy, bronze, coppery, blue or bluish-green; elytra sometimes very dark green or bronze.
Pattern colour: None
Number of spots: None
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: Orange

Biology

Status: Locally common in southern England, rare in Wales
Habitat: Various, often near water
Host plant: Willows, sometimes poplars and blackthorn, also dandelions
Overwintering: Adults under bark and in dead wood
Food: Adults on lower epidermis of leaves (and possibly pollen e.g. of dandelions), larvae on roots of willows

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