Strawberry Leaf Beetle - Galerucella tenella

3-4mm. Finely pubescent. Tawny with top of the head and scutellum (except for tip) dark. Front and rear edges of pronotum bare and shiny. No clear 'shoulder' spots. Antennae pale brown but darkening towards the apices. Apical sternite is bowl-shaped.

Other Galerucella species.

A good photo of the apical sternite is very helpful. Otherwise describe the identifying features.

Around its main foodplants Meadowsweet and Strawberry.

May and June.

It can become a pest of cultivated strawberries.

Fairly common in most of England and Wales and on the western coast of Scotland.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 39 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.