Barley flea beetle
Phyllotreta vittula (L. Redtenbacher, 1849)
Status not recordedbeetles
The barley flea beetle (Phyllotreta vittula) is a species in the family Chrysomelidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 1.65 mm in length.
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Quick facts about the barley flea beetle
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- 1.65 mmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Herbivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
How big is the barley flea beetle?
What eats the barley flea beetle?
Species recorded in published studies and collections.
Recorded predators of the barley flea beetle
The 24 best supported of 51 on record
- Bembidion properans2 sources
- Tachyporus solutus2 sources
- Mesophile Sunshiner Amara lunicollis2 sources
- Anotylus inustus2 sources
- Paederus littoralis2 sources
- Pardosa palustris2 sources
- Philonthus laminatus2 sources
- Allagelena gracilens2 sources
- Garden Bembidion beetle Bembidion quadrimaculatum2 sources
- Euophrys frontalis2 sources
- Ant-spider Myrmarachne formicaria2 sources
- Oxypoda longipes2 sources
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- Tachyporus pusillus2 sources
- Trechus quadristriatus2 sources
- Gorse orbweaver Agalenatea redii2 sources
- Common fox spider Alopecosa pulverulenta2 sources
- Amara aenea2 sources
- Narrow-dimpled Sunshiner Amara similata2 sources
- Drassyllus lutetianus2 sources
- Oxypoda brevicornis2 sources
- Palporus nitidulus2 sources
- Philhygra palustris2 sources
- Platystethus nitens2 sources
- Zora spinimana2 sources
Each pair is recorded by at least two independent datasets. A record shows the animal was seen or found to have eaten the other, including scavenged carcasses and young animals; it does not say how often. Compiled by Global Biotic Interactions (CC0 1.0).
References for these records
- Poelen, J. H. Global Biotic Interactions: Interpreted Data Products. Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5708970 (2021).
- @article{Hines_2019, doi = {10.1002/ecy.2679}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fecy.2679}, year = 2019, month = {mar}, publisher = {Wiley}, pages = {e02679}, author = {Jes Hines and Darren P. Giling and Michael Rzanny and Winfried Voigt and Sebastian T. Meyer and Wolfgang W. Weisser and Nico Eisenha
Where does the barley flea beetle live?
Not recorded
Is the barley flea beetle endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the barley flea beetle classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderColeoptera
- familyChrysomelidae
- genusPhyllotreta
- SpeciesPhyllotreta vittula (L. Redtenbacher, 1849)
Synonyms Haltica vittula
Other names and names in other languages (14)
- Barley flea-beetleEnglish
- KornjordloppeDanish
- Gulstribet kornjordloppeDanish
- Gersten-FlohkäferGerman
- ohrakirppaFinnish
- kis káposztabolhaHungarian
- 검정등줄벼룩잎벌레Korean
- Javinė kopūstinukėLithuanian
- Gestreepte graanaardvloDutch
- Pchełka pasiastaPolish
- Блошка хлебная полосатаяRussian
- skočka obilnáSlovak
- kornjordloppaSwedish
- блішка смугаста хлібнаUkrainian
Relatives of the barley flea beetle
Other species in the same genus Phyllotreta.
Small turnip flea beetle
Phyllotreta undulata
Turnip flea beetle
Phyllotreta nemorum
Striped flea beetle
Phyllotreta striolata
Horseradish flea beetle
Phyllotreta armoraciae
Zimmerman's flea beetle
Phyllotreta zimmermanni
Bronzy brassica flea beetle
Phyllotreta aeneicollis
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Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the barley flea beetle?
An adult barley flea beetle measures 1.65 mm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
What kind of animal is the barley flea beetle?
The barley flea beetle (Phyllotreta vittula) belongs to the family Chrysomelidae in the order Coleoptera.
What eats the barley flea beetle?
Animals recorded preying on the barley flea beetle include bembidion properans, tachyporus solutus, mesophile sunshiner and anotylus inustus. The records are compiled by Global Biotic Interactions from published studies; each pair is reported by at least two datasets.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI): interpreted data products · CC0 1.0 · 0.11
Poelen, J.H., Simons, J.D. & Mungall, C.J. (2014) Global Biotic Interactions: an open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics 24: 148–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.005. Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22691479, with each record's original reference. - TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe · CC BY 4.0 · 2.0
Chauvier, Y., Adde, A., Bergamini, A. et al. (2025) TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844
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