Chrysolina coerulans: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Chrysolina
- Species
- Chrysolina coerulans
- Scientific Name
- Chrysolina coerulans
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Chrysolina coerulans
Chrysolina coerulans, also known as the blue mint beetle or blue mint leaf beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is a member of the subgenus Synerga of the genus Chrysolina. It is native to a wide range of countries between mid and eastern Europe and lives alongside rivers and in meadows, it feeds on various plant members of the mint family.
It was first spotted in the UK in 2011, when it was first reported to the Royal Horticultural Society's entomology department in July. In 2012, it was found breeding in Kent, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. It has further spread throughout the UK.
...Chrysolina coerulans in languages:
- Czech
- mandelinka modravá
- Danish
- Blå mynteguldbille
- Dutch
- Blauw muntgoudhaantje
- English
- Mint beetle
- English
- Leaf beetle
- French
- Chrysomèle bleuâtre
- German
- Himmelblauer Blattkäfer
- Hungarian
- Kék mentabogár
- Lithuanian
- Mėlynasis puošnys
- Russian
- Листоед синеполосый
- Swedish
- blå myntebagge
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