Size: 5.5-8.5mm
Basic colour: Various jewel-like colours - gold, copper, green, blue, violet, purple, magenta, sometimes black.
Pattern colour: None
Number of spots: None
Other colour forms: Many and common
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: As basic colour
Confusion species: Plateumaris discolor

Size: 6.6-8mm
Basic colour: Various jewel-like colours - gold, copper, green, blue, violet, purple, magenta, sometimes black.
Pattern colour: None
Number of spots: None
Other colour forms: Many and common
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: As basic colour
Confusion species: Plateumaris sericea

Size: 4.6-7.0mm
Basic colour: Yellow, orange or reddish
Pattern colour: None
Number of spots: None
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: As basic colour
Confusion species: Gonioctena olivacea

Size: 3.7-7.5mm
Basic colour: Yellowish to brownish with black marks
Pattern colour: Elytral suture dark brown, elytra sometimes with longitudinal brown lines which may be irregular in shape or broken.
Number of spots: No spots, though note markings as above.
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: Usually yellow to brown, occasionally black.
Leg colour: Yellowish to brownish
Confusion species: Gonioctena pallida