Acacia Leaf Beetle - Dicranosterna immaculata (Paropsis immaculata)
Subfamily Chrysomelinae, FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE
This page contains information and pictures about Acacia Leaf Beetles that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 12mm
Defence behaviour
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- When they sense any danger, the Acacia Leaf Beetles hide their legs and antenna under and hold tight on leaf surface. When we come closer, as most other small beetles, they slide to the edge of the leaf and drop onto the ground. So we always put our hand under the leaf when approaching leaf beetles. The second picture shows the beetle on Tony's finger.
- When the beetle first drops onto our hand, it hides all its legs and antenna under its body and does not move. After a while, when it feels there is no danger, it walks around on our hand.
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- Thank to Chris Reid for the identification of this leaf beetle.
- Reference:
- 1. Dicranosterna immaculata - Botanic Gardens Trust.
- 2. A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) - Reid, C.A.M., Zootaxa 1292, 2006, Fig 39.
- 3. Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum, 2003, p121.
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