Chrysomela lapponica

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A female of Chrysomela lapponica (elytra red with three black stripes) sits on a birch leaf together with about 30 eggs it has deposited.
Chrysomela lapponica female ovipositing on a birch leaf (Czech Republic).)
Author: Jürgen Gross

Chrysomela lapponica Linnaeus, 1758 is a leaf beetle feeding on willow and birch in northern and central Europe which can show different colour patterns on its elytra. In the Kola Peninsula of north-west Russia, outbreaks of Chrysomela lapponica resulted in severe defoliation of the willow species Salix borealis during the 1990s.

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Synonyms

  • Melasoma lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Publications

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