Gonioctena viminalis

Size: 

5.5-7.0mm

Basic colour: 

Orange to yellow with black spots (sometimes dorsally all black)

Pattern colour: 

Orange to yellow with black spots (sometimes dorsally all black)

Spot fusions: 

Sometimes

Leg colour: 

Black or dark brown (yellowish claws)

Gonioctena viminalis

Authority: 

(Linnaeus, 1758)
Size: 5.5-7.0mm
Basic colour: Orange to yellow with black spots (sometimes dorsally all black)
Pattern colour: Orange to yellow with black spots (sometimes dorsally all black)
Number of spots: Two (sometimes fused into one broad spot) on the pronotum, five on each elytron (but sometimes fused, missing, partially missing or dorsally all black)
Spot fusions: Sometimes
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: See above
Leg colour: Black or dark brown (yellowish claws)
Confusion species: Gonioctena decemnotata

Gonioctena decemnotata

Authority: 

(Marsham, 1802)
Size: 5.5-7.5mm
Basic colour: Yellowish-orange to reddish-brown with black spots
Pattern colour: Yellowish-orange to reddish-brown with black spots
Number of spots: Two on the pronotum, five on each elytron (rarely some or all absent)
Other colour forms: Rare
Pronotoum: Yellowish-orange to reddish-brown with black spots
Leg colour: Yellowish-orange to reddish-brown.
Confusion species: Gonioctena viminalis

Phaedon tumidulus

Authority: 

(Germar, 1824)

Common name: 

Celery Leaf Beetle
Size: 3.5-4.0mm
Basic colour: Very variable; metallic dark blue, dark green or brassy.
Pattern colour: Nonen
Number of spots: None
Other colour forms: Common
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: As basic colour

Phaedon concinnus

Authority: 

Stephens, 1831
Size: 3.2-4.1mm
Basic colour: Bright metallic green or greenish blue, sometimes coppery, rarely metallic blue.
Pattern colour: None
Number of spots: None
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: As basic colour
Confusion species: Phaedon cochleariae

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