Acacia Golden Green Leaf Beetle - Calomela juncta
FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE
This page contains information and pictures about Silver Wattle Leaf Beetles that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 10mm
- The beetle is golden
green in colour with dark brown strips on its back. A number of them can be found on
a Acacia tree. We usually found them on young Brisbane Golden Wattle Acacia
fimbriata.
- Above picture was taken in late summer 2002 in Eight Mile Plains.
- They are usually found feeding in small group on young stem on host plants. All of them will suddenly drop from leaves onto ground even if very minor disturbed. .
- Above pictures were taken in Nov 2010 in Daisy Hills.
- Thank to Chris Reid for the identification of this leaf beetle.
- Reference:
- 1. A Reappraisal of the Australian Species of the Genus Calomela Hope (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae) - B. J. Selman, Australian Journal of Zoology 27(4) 561 - 584
- 2. Key to the Chrysomelinae of New South Wales - FaunaNet, Australian Museum, 2003.
- 3. New host plants for Calomela crassicornis (Fabricius, 1775) and Calomela ioptera (Baly, 1856)(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), with notes on two other Calomela species - by Dr Trevor J. Hawkeswood and N. Monaghan.
