Halmus chalybeus
Steel-blue labybird at Black Range, NSW
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| Halmus chalybeus | 4 Oct 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Halmus chalybeus | 4 Oct 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| CHRYSOMELIDAE (family) | 4 Oct 2020 | StephH |
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User's notes
Found in some spinach taken from the garden and photographed on the kitchen bench. About 3 mm long and iridescent dark blue-black. Possibly the same one as in Jackie's sighting 3407043.
3 comments
StephH
wrote:
4 Oct 2020
Hi Jackie. Yes, a distinctive feature shared, I noticed, by some paropsisterna species. I looked through that genus on the ALA and there are a few similar ones but none that look exactly like it.
KimPullen
wrote:
6 Oct 2020
Happy to help, Jackie. Leaf beetles of the Paropsis group resemble ladybirds, although most are larger than ladybirds. A giveaway is in the antennae, which in ladybirds are short with a club on the end, whereas in leaf beetles they are longer and 'simple', i.e. without a club.
StephH
wrote:
6 Oct 2020
Thanks Kim. That's helpful. I'll remember to pay more attention to the antennae in future.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.849627-36.730521
- Places Black Range, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 4 Oct 2020 12:22 PM Recorded on
- StephH Recorded by
Collections
- Insects Lady beetles (Coccinellidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) StephH South Coast NatureMapr Halmus chalybeus
Species information
- Halmus chalybeus Scientific name
- Steel-blue labybird Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 719m Recorded at altitude
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