Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) ➔ Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods) ➔ Class Insecta (Insects) ➔ Order Coleoptera (Beetles) ➔ Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf beetles)

Chrysolina (Colaphosoma) sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)

Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer

Synonyms and other combinations:

Chrysomela sturmi Westhoff, 1882 | Chrysomela diversipes (Bedel, 1892) |

  • Chrysolina sturmi 7892
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi, conf. Christoph Benisch
    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark; 2017-07-23 17:03:19
    Image number: 7892

    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark
    2017-07-23 17:03:19
    conf. Christoph Benisch
  • Chrysolina sturmi 7893
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi
    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark; 2017-07-23 17:03:52
    Image number: 7893

    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark
    2017-07-23 17:03:52
  • Chrysolina sturmi 7894
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi
    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark; 2017-07-23 16:58:17
    Image number: 7894

    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark
    2017-07-23 16:58:17
  • Chrysolina sturmi 7895
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi
    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark; 2017-07-23 17:05:56
    Image number: 7895

    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark
    2017-07-23 17:05:56
  • Chrysolina sturmi 7896
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi
    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark; 2017-07-23 17:07:11
    Image number: 7896

    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark
    2017-07-23 17:07:11
  • Chrysolina sturmi 7897
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi
    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark; 2017-07-23 17:07:18
    Image number: 7897

    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark
    2017-07-23 17:07:18
  • Chrysolina sturmi 7898
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi
    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark; 2017-07-23 16:02:25
    Image number: 7898

    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark
    2017-07-23 16:02:25
  • Chrysolina sturmi 7899
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi
    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark; 2017-07-23 16:57:03
    Image number: 7899

    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark
    2017-07-23 16:57:03
  • Chrysolina sturmi, bottom view 7900
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi, bottom view, conf. Christoph Benisch
    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark; 2017-07-23 16:51:48
    Image number: 7900
    bottom view
    DE, Chemnitz, Stadtpark
    2017-07-23 16:51:48
    conf. Christoph Benisch
  • Chrysolina sturmi 9533
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi
    DE, Chemnitz, Markersdorf; 2020-07-20 17:04:46
    Image number: 9533

    DE, Chemnitz, Markersdorf
    2020-07-20 17:04:46
  • Chrysolina sturmi 9534
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi, conf. Klaas Reißmann
    DE, Chemnitz, Markersdorf; 2020-07-20 17:03:43
    Image number: 9534

    DE, Chemnitz, Markersdorf
    2020-07-20 17:03:43
    conf. Klaas Reißmann
  • Chrysolina sturmi 10159
    Chrysolina sturmi (Westhoff, 1882)  Violetter Gundermann-Blattkäfer   
    Chrysolina sturmi
    DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald; 2021-08-07 14:41:26
    Image number: 10159

    DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald
    2021-08-07 14:41:26

Classification:
Chrysolina sturmi belongs to the subfamily Chrysomelinae, tribe Doryphorini.
Distribution:
Europe
Habitat:
Forest edges, sunny clearings, grassland, gardens, parks - mostly on ground-ivy.
Description:
Length 6.0 - 10.0 mm; body black-blue or reddish violet; pronotum and elytra on the upper side finely dotted, pronotum rounded forward on the sides; legs predominantly metallic violet, only the tarsi brown; base of the antennae and palpi brown.
The males are considerably smaller than the females and have strongly widened tarsi.
Biology:
Chrysolina sturmi lives predominantly on ground-ivy (Glechoma hederacea) (family Lamiaceae), possibly also on other species of the family, as well as on common toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) (family Plantaginaceae).
The larvae and imagines of the species feed mainly at night and hide on the ground below the host plant during the day. The beetles hatch in July, mate in autumn and start laying eggs into the ground in September.

References, further reading, links:
  1. Rheinheimer, Joachim, & Hassler, Michael: Die Blattkäfer Baden-Württembergs, 2018, 928 pages, Kleinsteuber Books (Karlsruhe), ISBN 978-3-9818110-2-5
  2. Arved Lompe: Die Käfer Europas - Ein Bestimmungswerk im Internet