Unusual Color - _TNY_5164

The leaf beetle known as Plagiosterna aenea (no common English name) normally has a carapace in metallic green and sometimes with a blue tinge, but this specimen from the Sandemar nature reserve had a really nifty variation with a blueish green front part and a fade to brown at the rear.

 

Typically they look like this: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52733475737/

 

or this: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52609306560/

Done