Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Oedemera lurida?, 1 by wallaby1
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Subject: CLOSED: Oedemera lurida?
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wallaby1 wrote: I think I've got this right as Oedemera lurida. The back colour seems to vary a little, or the pictures are not showing it correctly. The colour on my pics was as it looks. http://popgen.unimaas.nl/~jlindsey/commanster/Insects/Beetle... It's food is mentioned as being Geranium sylvaticum, the plant it was feeding on is probably a hybrid of that as it's a self set from a plant I got from a neighbour. The top of the abdomen on mine is orange with grey under, I found this pic which just shows that. http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/eng/oedlurdg.htm More http://www.koleopterologie.de/gallery/FHL08/oedemera-lurida-... http://www.koleopterologie.de/gallery/FHL08/oedemera-lurida2... http://www.koleopterologie.de/gallery/FHL08/oedemera-lurida-... The next pic is named as Oedemera lurida and looks vey similar in colour to mine, location Peterborough is quite close to me. http://thenaturalstone.blogspot.com/2004/05/froghopper-and-b... The female of Oedemera nobilis is green and doesn't have the very inflated thighs of the male, http://www.koleopterologie.de/gallery/FHL08/oedemera-nobilis... I can't see the orange on it though in this pic http://www.koleopterologie.de/gallery/FHL08/oedemera-nobilis... There are many on this site http://www.koleopterologie.de/gallery/FHL08/fhl08.html#oedem... |