Cryptocephalus nitidulus

Authority: 

Fabricius, 1787
Size: 3.5-5.2mm
Basic colour: Bright metallic green or blue
Pattern colour: None
Number of spots: Pronotum sometimes with yellow spots at the front and hind angles.
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: Yellow or orange-yellow (middle and hind femora darker).

Previously known from a small number of scattered locations, now primarily a few sites in Surrey. This species has UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) page here.

Cryptocephalus pusillus

Authority: 

Fabricius, 1777
Size: 2.2-3.0mm
Basic colour: Yellowish
Pattern colour: See notes below.
Number of spots: See notes below.
Other colour forms: Common
Pronotoum: Yellowish (sometimes partly orange or brownish in dark specimens)
Leg colour: Yellow or orange-yellow
Confusion species: Cryptocephalus fulvus

Cryptocephalus fulvus

Authority: 

(Goeze, 1777)
Size: 2-3mm
Basic colour: Yellowish
Pattern colour: No pattern as such, though see notes below. Narrowly dark suture.
Number of spots: May have darkened elytral shoulders.
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: Yellowish (sometimes brownish in dark specimens)
Leg colour: Yellow or orange-yellow
Confusion species: Cryptocephalus pusillus

Cryptocephalus moraei

Size: 

3-5mm

Basic colour: 

Black and yellow

Pattern colour: 

Elytra black with variable yellow spot at the apex and a yellow area along the front half of the outer side.

Leg colour: 

Orange-yellow, femora darkened; legs sometimes darkened more extensively.

Cryptocephalus moraei

Authority: 

(Linnaeus, 1758)
Size: 3-5mm
Basic colour: Black and yellow
Pattern colour: Elytra black with variable yellow spot at the apex and a yellow area along the front half of the outer side.
Number of spots: See 'pattern colour' and 'pronotum'
Pronotoum: Black, usually with a fine yellow front margin, and a yellow spot at the hind angles.
Leg colour: Orange-yellow, femora darkened; legs sometimes darkened more extensively.

Cryptocephalus frontalis

Authority: 

Marsham, 1802
Size: 2.3-3.0mm
Basic colour: Black
Pattern colour: Head, pronotum and elytra black with small orange-yellowish areas.
Number of spots: Variable small orange-yellowish areas.
Pronotoum: Black; may have orange-yellowish patches; front 1/3 to 1/2 of side margin finely orange-yellow. Sometimes a very small yellowish area at the side of the hind angles.
Leg colour: Yellow (femora darkened to the rear)

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