| Although
there are a large number of very similar looking leaf
beetles, the two UK species of Apteropeda are
distinctive in the filed through their more rounded
shape, when viewed from above. Apteropeda globosa is
the less common of the two (a third Apteropeda
is now thought extinct in the UK) and is Nationally
notable B. This adult was strangely found ascending the
trunk of a tree at Wellow Park in May 2013. As with all
of the 'jumping' leaf beetles, photography is fraught
with the likelyhood of the subject making a quick exit. |
