Orange-black Leaf Cylinder Beetle - Aporocera speciosa
FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Orange-black Leaf Cylinder Beetles that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 8mm
- We found this Leaf Beetle once on a She-oak (Casuarina sp.) in Wishart during mid summer.
- We also found it on milkweed in Karawatha Forest during mid summer.
- Thank to Chris Reid for the identification of this leaf beetle.
- Reference:
- 1. Leaf Beetles subfamily Cryptocephalinae - lifeunseen.com, by Nick Monaghan, 2008.
- 2. Insect Reference Collection Database - Department of Agriculture Western Australia.
- 3. Aporocera (Aporocera) speciosa (Boisduval, 1835) - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australia 2005.
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