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.

 

 

 

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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).

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