Gold Coast BeetlesAcacia Leaf Beetle (Dicranosterna picea) Brown Flower Beetle (Glycyphana stolata) Castiarina bella Castiarina luteipennis Chauliognathus flavipennis Darkling Beetle (Ecnolagria aurofasciata) Green Strip Leaf Beetle (Calomela pallida) Lycid Beetle (Porrostoma laterale) Mesolita lineolata Pandorea Leaf Beetle (Johannica gemellata) White Acacia Leaf Beetle (Dicranosterna circe)
The Acacia Leaf Beetle (Dicranosterna picea) is one of the most common leaf beetles found in the Brisbane and Gold Coast region of Queensland. As the common name suggests, they are usually only found on the Acacia shrubs and trees, where both larvae and adults feed on the Acacia leaves
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea
- Family: Chrysomelidae
- Subfamily: Chrysomelinae
- Genus: Dicranosterna
- Species: Dicranosterna picea
Footnote & References
- Acacia Leaf Beetle (Dicranosterna picea), Photographs © Stefan Jones
- Dicranosterna picea (Olivier, 1807), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/5e47d862-467a-4b43-8fc9-cb5461dfa12b
- Dicranosterna picea, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/633409-Dicranosterna-picea
Gold Coast BeetlesAcacia Leaf Beetle (Dicranosterna picea) Brown Flower Beetle (Glycyphana stolata) Castiarina bella Castiarina luteipennis Chauliognathus flavipennis Darkling Beetle (Ecnolagria aurofasciata) Green Strip Leaf Beetle (Calomela pallida) Lycid Beetle (Porrostoma laterale) Mesolita lineolata Pandorea Leaf Beetle (Johannica gemellata) White Acacia Leaf Beetle (Dicranosterna circe)
QueenslandGold Coast Region Lamington National Park Southern Downs QLD