Two-tailed Leaf Beetle - Aproida balyi
FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE
This page contains information and pictures about Two-tailed Leaf Beetles that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 8mm
- This beetle is bright grass-green with dark brown edges. It legs are all green in colour. The antennae are dark brown with white tip.
- On Dec 2011 in Anstead Forest, we found this bright-green beetle flying pass slowly. We thought it could be the common Green Scarab Beetle. We followed it until it landed on grasses. It rested on the grasses about a minute. It flied away after we took those pictures.
- From reference information the beetle and its larvae feed on Philesiaceae and Convallariaceae.
- Reference:
- 1. Beetles of Australia - Trevor J Hawkeswood, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1987, plate 173.
- 2. Observations on the colour pattern and mimicry of Aproida balyi Pascoe, 1863 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Hispinae) with new locality records and comments on the revisionary paper of G.A Samuelson in the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum (1989) - Trevor Hawkeswood, Calodema Supplementary Paper No. 2. (2007)
