Dotted-head Acacia Beetle - Calomela maculicollis
FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE
This page contains information and pictures about Dotted-head Acacia Beetles that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 8mm
- We found this beetle on Acacia leaf. The beetle is metallic green in colour with black marks on orange-brown head and thorax. We found this beetle only once.
- Pictures were taken on Daisy Hill near Buhot Creek on Jan 2011.
- Reference:
- 1. A Reappraisal of the Australian Species of the Genus Calomela Hope (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae) - B. J. Selman, Australian Journal of Zoology 27(4) 561 - 584
- 2. Key to the Chrysomelinae of New South Wales - FaunaNet, Australian Museum, 2003.
- 3. Chrysomelidae - Leaf beetles - Lynne Forster, TASMANIAN BEETLES AND SPIDERS.
