A "leaf beetle" is a type of small insect that eats leaves. It is called a "leaf beetle" because it is beetles that like to feed on leaves from plants or trees. Full definition
Jamison, a biologist now with the Colorado Plateau Research Station at Northern Arizona University, has long tracked the tamarisk leaf beetle through the Southwest. (discovermagazine.com)
Strategy that unleashed cedar leaf beetles on Tamarisk trees may have to be revised as the chompers spread to threaten endangered birds (scientificamerican.com)
Cephaloleichnites strongi, as the new species has been dubbed, represents the earliest known rolled - leaf beetle species, hundreds of which still exist today. (sciencemag.org)