General: Leaf Beetles (Family Chrysomelidae) are an extremely diverse group with some 220 genera and 1,900 species and subspecies in North America. Many species are colorful with various colorful spots and lines.

Adult Leaf Beetles eat living leaves and sometimes flowers. This species apparently prefers willow (Salix spp.) leaves.

This species is known from Mexico and southern Arizona, and apparetly this is the first recorded in Utah (Coyote Gulch, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument; June 2010).

For more information, see BugGuide.net.