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About 3-4mm long.
Pictured on the Eastern Arc. Uluguru Mountains
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This is a Chrysomelid beetle.
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Thanks Smile
Anybody for the genus?
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Something close to Oulema, but that is a European genus so probably not correct in Uganda.

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Thanks John,
This was pictured in TanzaniaSmile
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John Bratton wrote:
Something close to Oulema, but that is a European genus so probably not correct in Uganda.

I think it might be a Zeugophora, subfamily Zeugophorinae (family Megalopodidae).
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Thank you Jeroen
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