Haldeman's green potato beetle
Leptinotarsa haldemani
Haldeman's green potato beetle is a small, round, shiny beetle. Its back is a deep metallic green, and some are purple or blue instead. Its head, feelers and legs are black.
Lives in
Mexico, Central America and the southwest of the United States
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
It eats plants of the nightshade family, such as wild groundcherries. Now and then it is found on potato plants too.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Haldeman's green potato beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is named after Samuel Haldeman, an American bug scientist who collected insects in Texas long ago.
2
Its body is shaped like a little dome.
3
It belongs to the leaf beetles, a huge family of beetles that eat leaves.
you asked
Most asked questions about Haldeman's green potato beetle
?Is Haldeman's green potato beetle a pest?
It is sometimes found on potatoes, but mostly it lives on wild plants.
?Where does Haldeman's green potato beetle live?
In Mexico, Central America and the US states of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leptinotarsa haldemani
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Leptinotarsa haldemani (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Morgan Hay. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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