The antennae, front, and middle legs are reddish yellow. Adults can be observed by passing a hand over affected dichondra. The disturbed adults will jump, some of them onto your hand or arm. Dichondra flea beetle overwinters as an adult. Larvae feed between May and October on small roots and the outsides of larger roots.
Adults feed on dichondra leaves, producing distinctive crescent marks on the upper surface.
Larval populations can be assessed by placing turf soil cores in a Berlese funnel and extracting the larvae. The dichondra flea beetle has also been found damaging common and hybrid bermudagrass in California. Symptoms include overall appearance of lack of water or fertilizer burn. First signs of damage appear in March and decrease in September as temperatures drop. Individual leaf blades have white linear banding along the length of the leaf blade.