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. 

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Reference:

1. Leaf Beetles subfamily Chrysomelinae - Nick Monaghan.

2. Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane -  Queensland Museum, 2003, p178. 

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