Insects
Beetles (Coleoptera)
Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)
Sighting 4419956

Monolepta sp. (genus)

Leaf beetle at Melba, ACT

Monolepta sp. (genus) at Melba, ACT - 3 Nov 2021 08:29 PM
Monolepta sp. (genus) at Melba, ACT - 3 Nov 2021 08:29 PM
Monolepta sp. (genus) at Melba, ACT - 3 Nov 2021 08:29 PM
Monolepta sp. (genus) at Melba, ACT - 3 Nov 2021 08:29 PM
Request use of media

Identification history

Monolepta sp. (genus) 18 Mar 2022 KimberiRP
Unverified 22 Jan 2022 kasiaaus

Identify this sighting

Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.

User's notes

About 12mm long, if I remember correctly.

4 comments

KimberiRP wrote:
   6 Mar 2022
Appears to be Monolepta minima. However that species usually has the head and pronotum entirely black, and is only about 5 or 6mm long, not 12mm.
kasiaaus wrote:
   6 Mar 2022
I am very bad with remembering sizes. It could have very well been 6mm. I am often quite annoyed with myself over this. I think I only put the comment of 12mm there to make sure that it was at the lower end of the large larger range I picked. I should have picked the smaller range, I think.
KimberiRP wrote:
   18 Mar 2022
Monolepta minima as identified in the ANIC (I have just looked at them) has a consistently different pattern. I can't find any identified specimens that match this one, so I will call it just 'Monolepta sp.'.
KimberiRP wrote:
   5 Aug 2024
Monolepta angulata - if records in ALA are correctly identified!

Please Login or Register to comment.

Location information

Sighting information

Additional information

  • 12mm to 25mm Animal size

Species information

Record quality

  • Images or audio
  • More than one media file
  • Verified by an expert moderator
  • Nearby sighting(s) of same species
  • GPS evidence of location
  • Description
  • Additional attributes
833,191 sightings of 22,969 species from 14,456 members
CCA 3.0 | privacy
NatureMapr is developed by at3am IT Pty Ltd and is proudly Australian made