Orange Tortoise Beetle - Aspidimorpha westwoodi
FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE
This page contains information and pictures about Orange Tortoise Beetles that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 5mm
- The beetles are broadly ovate shaped with wing-covers and prothorax broadly extended. The prothorax cover the head from above. They have the orange colour body. On wing covers there are the black dots patterns.
- Thank to Chris Reid
for the identification of this leaf beetle.
- Reference:
- 1. Insect Reference Collection Database - Department of Agriculture Western Australia.
- 2. Aspidimorpha (Aspidimorpha) westwoodi (Boheman, 1854) - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Commonwealth of Australia 2005.
- 3. A survey of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Townsville district, northern Queensland, Australia - Dr Trevor J Hawkeswood, G. It. Ent., 4: 93-112, 1988, Fig.5 (Aspidimorpha interrupta).
