Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Beetle

Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 14-04-2009 09:37
#1

About 3-4mm long.
Pictured on the Eastern Arc. Uluguru Mountains
micro2macro.net/insect2.jpg

Edited by Muhammad Mahdi on 14-04-2009 10:04

Posted by Xespok on 14-04-2009 09:53
#2

This is a Chrysomelid beetle.

Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 14-04-2009 10:08
#3

Thanks :)
Anybody for the genus?

Posted by John Bratton on 14-04-2009 18:29
#4

Something close to Oulema, but that is a European genus so probably not correct in Uganda.

John Bratton

Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 16-04-2009 06:23
#5

Thanks John,
This was pictured in Tanzania:)

Posted by Jeroen K on 16-04-2009 12:21
#6

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).

Edited by Jeroen K on 16-04-2009 12:33

Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 21-04-2009 14:14
#7

Thank you Jeroen