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FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE
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- Dark Green Leaf Beetle
 - Chalcomela
nitida (Cyclomela nitida), body length 10mm
- Pictures
were taken in Tamborine rainforest on Sept 2007. Only one is found in the near-by area.
Please also check this page for more details.
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- Metallic Green Leaf Beetle
 - Callidemum
sp., body length 10mm
- This leaf beetle was found
alone on Acacia on March 2008 in Mt Coot-tha. Please visit this page
for more information.
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- 9-Spotted Leaf Beetle
 - Phyllocharis
cyanicornis, body length 12mm
- This leaf Beetle is orange in
colour with nine large black spots. We found it once on the hill-top of
Anstead Forest on Feb 2010. It was hiding in a rolled leaf. It dropped onto
ground after we took a few photos.
- Reference:
- 1. Key to the Chrysomelinae of New South Wales - FaunaNet, Australian Museum, 2003.
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- Variegated Ragweed Beetle
 - Zygogramma bicolorata
- This Leaf Beetle
was introduced from American to control the Rag weed (Parthenium sp.).
- Reference:
- 1. A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) - Reid,
C.A.M., Zootaxa 1292, 2006, Fig 72.
[ Up ] [ Dicranosterna ] [ Paropsis ] [ Trachymela ] [ Paropsisterna ] [ Paropsisterna (former Chrysophtharta) ] [ Calomela ] [ Lamprolina ] [ Tinosis ] [ Other Chrysomelinae ]
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