Insects
Beetles (Coleoptera)
Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)

Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)

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Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)

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DiBickers wrote:
Yesterday
This one may look similar to Orcus australasiae, but it’s actually a Leaf Beetle not a Ladybird Beetle. It appears to have two rows of four spots but It’s difficult for me to see enough detail in this one photo to verify whether it’s Paropsisterna octosignata, or the mimic Paropsisterna nigerrima, so I’ll have to put it through at Genus-level😊
Paropsisterna sp. (genus)
MichaelBedingfield wrote:
24 Apr 2025
Case moth ?
Cryptocephalinae (sub-family)
DiBickers wrote:
19 Apr 2025
This is a Lema (Quasilema) daturaphila (Three-lined potato beetle). I think this one may have been put under Xanthogaleruca luteola (Elm leaf beetle) accidentally.
Lema (Quasilema) daturaphila
TwoRivers wrote:
19 Apr 2025
See the following URL to assist in confirmation:
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/bcd88f41-d569-4837-8d7d-9f5647546926
Dicranosterna immaculata
DiBickers wrote:
13 Apr 2025
The deeply pitted pronotum with patches of dark shading along vertex (back of head) & the splatter of colouring along the lateral pronotum (sides of thorax) extending from the elytral coloured lines are better suited to Calomela vittata.
Calomela vittata

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