Mangold Flea Beetle - Chaetocnema concinna

1.5-2.3 mm. A dark, shiny flea beetle. Bronze, coppery or dark green with elytral punctures in straight rows. The genus has small teeth on each of the mid and hind tibia. See ID checklist below.

C. picipes is the only other species in the genus with elytral punctuation in clear rows. This has the last antennal segment more pointed and narrow and generally symmetrical.

• 1.5-2.3mm
• A tooth on both mid and hind tibia
• Swollen hind femora
• Elytral punctuation in clear rows
• Last antennal segment asymmetrical
• Pronotum with short lateral grooves

Various habitats, sometimes associated with fields of Sugar Beet.

Can be found in most months of the year peaking around April and May.

Feeds on various Polygonaceae (docks, knotweeds) and Chenopodiaceae (Fat-hen, oraches); also Beet, Lesser Periwinkle, Yew and Birches. 

Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were approximately 100 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.