Potato Flea Beetle - Psylliodes affinis
Length 2 to 3 mm with straw yellow elytra marked with brown.
Around the various host plants.
Spring and summer.
It feeds on the leaves of various plants of the family Solanaceae cultivated or wild.
Common and widespread in England and Wales.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
09 May 2018
stepgray4
Wymeswold Meadows
26 March 2022
Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
17 April 2022
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Species profile
- Common names
- Potato Flea Beetle
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Chrysomelidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 17/05/2012 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 01/05/2025 (Higgott, Mike)
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Graham Calow
Sapcote
17 May 2012
specimen examined
Peter Smith
Barrow upon Soar
17 July 2015
Woody Nightshade leaf showing damage by Potato Flea Beetle
