Phyllotreta ochripes
This 3mm long flea beetle is black and brown with pale legs. Only the hind femur is black otherwise the legs are all straw yellow. The 5th antennal segment is elongated.
Found on a range of brassicas, but especially on garlic mustard.
Summer to early autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in much of England, but seems to be less well recorded elsewhere in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 22 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
23 April 2020
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
06 July 2013
5th antennal segment elongated
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
06 July 2013
legs pale apart from hind femur
Mike Higgott
County Hall
27 May 2016
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
06 July 2013
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
06 July 2013
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
23 April 2020
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Chrysomelidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 06/07/2013 (Cooper, Barbara)
- Last record:
- 30/04/2024 (Hunt, Graham)
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