White Acacia Leaf Beetle - Dicranosterna circe
FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE
This page contains information and pictures about White Acacia Leaf Beetles that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 10mm
- This leaf beetle is creamy white in colour, with a dark brown dots on each wing cover.
- On May 2008 near Buhot Creek in Daisy Hill, we found one on a small Acacia tree. It was slowly walking on stems and leaves. We found there was no other leaf beetle on the same plant, and no larvae were found.
- When we came very close, it dropped onto ground and play dead.
- On a small plant (? Leucopogon sp.) near by, we found another White Acacia Leaf Beetle.
- When the beetle dropped onto the ground and play dead, we waited and wanted to see how it turn back and walked away. However, we waited for 15 minutes, it did not move a bit.
- We also found one along Buhot Creek on Oct 2008. Notice the fresh bite marks on the Acacia leaf that the beetle just fed.
Eggs and Larvae
- Those White Acacia Leaf Beetle eggs and larvae photos were taken on Nov 2010 in Daisy Hills next to Buhot Creek.
- Thank to Chris Reid for the identification of this leaf beetle.
- Reference:
- 1. Leaf Beetles subfamily Chrysomelinae - Nick Monaghan.
- 2. Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum, 2003, p178.
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