Kangaroo Vine Leaf Beetle - Oides fryi
FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE
This page contains information and pictures about Kangaroo Vine Leaf Beetles that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 15mm
- We found this beetle in the rainforest near Mt Nebo during mid summer.
- The beetle was found on Kangaroo Vine Cissus antarctica (Family Vitaceae).
- We saw two in Brisbane Koala Bushlands next to the Tingalpa Creek on Nov 2011.
- Thank to Chris Reid for the identification of this leaf beetle.
- Reference:
- 1. Leaf Beetles subfamily Galerucinae - lifeunseen.com, by Nick Monaghan, 2008.
- 2. Beetles of Australia - Trevor J Hawkeswood, Angus & Robertson Publishers 1987, plate 169.
- 3. Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum, 2003, p226.
- 4. Oides fryi (Clark, 1864) - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australia 2005.
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