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This Eucalyptus Leaf Beetle has been identified as genus Paropsisterna, possibly species Paropsisterna laesa (also known as Paropsis laesa).
Paropsis laesa is a good guess. This is a species complex, containing several similar species, some not named. I have sometimes named these beetles P. laesa but am aware that sometimes it will be wrong.
Source: Martin Lagerwey
P. laesa belongs to the genus Paropsisterna, a group of leaf beetles (many of whom feed on Eucalyptus leaves), who at the time of writing number some 120 species.
Paropsisterna beetles are about 3-17 mm long, have bodies that are semi-circular to elongate-ovate and moderately to strongly convex.
More information under Fauna > Insects > Beetles > Paropsisterna sp
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea
- Family: Chrysomelidae
- Subfamily: Chrysomelinae
- Genus: Paropsisterna
- Species: Paropsisterna laesa
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Martin Lagerwey and Di Bickers for ID, member of Australasian Beetles Only, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180404322409639/
- Paropsisterna laesa (Germar, 1848), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Paropsisterna laesa
- Paropsisterna laesa, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/746523-Paropsisterna-laesa
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