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)
Mesolita lineolata (in the family Cerambycidae), was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1862.
Current iNaturalistAU observations at time of writing from Sunshine Coast through the Gold Coast, to Listmore and nearby Victoria Park Nature Reserve region.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborders: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea
- Family: Cerambycidae
- Subfamily: Laminae
- Genus: Mesolita
- Species: Mesolita lineolata
Footnote & References
- Mesolita lineolata, Photographs © Stefan Jones
- Many thanks for ID to Francesco Vitali, member of Jewel & Longhorned Beetle Forum, https://www.facebook.com/groups/115419658501409
- Mesolita lineolata Pascoe, 1862, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/1acafc5d-f6ae-407b-bf97-09753fcd1d8e
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