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title: "Bronze Beetle"
description: "Chrysolina bankii — Insetti e ragni. Chrysolina bankii, the bronze beetle or Bank's leaf beetle, is a species of leaf beetle native to western Europe and the western Mediterranean Basin, (including Macaronesia)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/bronze-beetle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bronze Beetle

> Chrysolina bankii — Insetti e ragni. Chrysolina bankii, the bronze beetle or Bank's leaf beetle, is a species of leaf beetle native to western Europe and the western Mediterranean Basin, (including Macaronesia).

- Scientific name: *Chrysolina bankii*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 14987
- Wikidata: [Q1943906](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1943906)
- iNaturalist taxon: [318965](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/318965)

## Names

- en: Bronze Beetle
- es: Crisomélido de Bank
- fr: Chrysomèle de Banks

## Countries with the most observations

US (3622), FR (2673), ES (2571), PT (2034), GB (1146), IT (362), IE (139), DZ (64), IM (17), TN (11), JE (9), MA (5)

## Summary

Chrysolina bankii, the bronze beetle or Bank's leaf beetle, is a species of leaf beetle native to western Europe and the western Mediterranean Basin, (including Macaronesia). European countries this species lives in include Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It has also been introduced to the US, where its range is expanding. It has an established population in California, where it is present around the San Francisco Bay and has further populations extending north to coastal regions in cities in and around Fort Bragg, and south to northern parts of Monterey County. There is an additional…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysolina_bankii

## Photo

![Bronze Beetle](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bronze-beetle/medium.jpg)

Photo: Theo Summer · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/162813932

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bronze-beetle?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).