Black-punctured leaf beetle
This leaf beetle is matt black all over and covered in tiny dents, like the skin of an orange. It loves dry, sunny meadows. When the female is full of eggs, her belly gets so big that her wing cases cover only half of it.
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Fun facts
Females are longer than males.
Eggs are laid in autumn on dry grass stems and covered with a protective goo.
The larvae wait until after winter and hatch in late April and May.
Its larvae are dark and covered with bristles.
It was named by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.
Most asked questions about Black-punctured leaf beetle
?What does the black-punctured leaf beetle eat?
Many plants, such as tansy, yarrow, thistles and silverweed.
?How big is the black-punctured leaf beetle?
About 6 to 11 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Galeruca tanaceti
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America
Where the facts come from
- Galeruca tanaceti (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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