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FAMILY CHRYSOMELIDAE
This page contains information and pictures about Orange Tortoise Beetles
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

- Body length 5mm
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- 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:
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- 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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