Green Strip Leaf Beetle - Calomela sp.
FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE
This page contains information and pictures about Green Strip Leaf Beetles that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 10mm
- We sometimes find this green leaf beetle in Alexandra Hill and Karawatha Forest during mid summer. They usually were wandering on a young Acacia tree.
- Although it was brightly green in colour, when it hided on a Acacia leaf in the shade, it was hardly be noticed.
- It was a slow moving insects. After we took a few pictures, it slowly walked to the leaf edge and flied to another young Acacia tree a couple of meters away.
The Host Plant
- Black Wattle
- Acacia leiocalyx subsp. leiocalyx, family Mimosaceae
- This beetles were found alone on young Black Wattle trees. Black Wattles are one of the most common trees in Brisbane's Eucalypt forest and bushland. We did not notice any damage was done by this beetle to the host plant.
