Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Other insects, spiders, etc.
 Black Beetle ID => Galeruca tanaceti
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| tristram |
Posted on 09-10-2011 22:37
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
About 10mm long. Beside a path through woodland beside a lake. Photo taken in Reading, UK, on 2011-10-09. tristram attached the following image:  [160.1Kb] Edited by tristram on 13-10-2012 23:39 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 09-10-2011 23:08
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like a Meloe ... very good find - well done  Did you get more angles?
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 10-10-2011 00:24
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7323 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Have to disagree with Chris on this one - I think it's a female chrysomelid, something near Galeruca tanaceti
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 10-10-2011 08:46
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Ahh, are the antennae wrong for Meloe? I see them so rarely
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| tristram |
Posted on 10-10-2011 11:57
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Thanks, Tony and Chris. When I first saw it, its shape did remind me of a bloated female Chrysomelid dock beetle. I had a quick look through Lech Borowiec's site but his Galeruca images lack the glossy blackness of the above specimen. No other angles, I'm afraid. It dropped off into long grass and escaped before I could get a second image. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 10-10-2011 12:16
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Just doing a Google image search it does look like the glossiness of the carapace is a bit variable ... but it does look very like Galeruca tanaceti to me ... the same shape of antennae & body.
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 10-10-2011 13:57
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Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7323 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Male Meloe do have strange antennae with a kink in them, but the females are more like this. One way to separate Meloe from large black chrysomelids is to look at the elytra - Meloe elytra overlap at the base, while chrysomelid elytra don't.
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