#paropsis

[onenicebugperday]

Eucalypt leaf beetle, Paropsis maculata, Chrysomelidae

Found in eastern Australia

Photo 1 by steve_kerr, 2 by liznoble, 3-4 by rick_franks, 5-7 by rlawrenz, and 8 (for scale) by doof

[herpsandbirds]

Spotted Paropsine Beetle (Paropsis maculata), family Chrysomelidae, QLD, Australia

photograph via: Brisbane Insects

[clumsyvelvetworms]

Some more cool critters - a Cardiaspina sp. psyllid within it's beautiful little lerp cage, and a very polite Dotted Paropsine Leaf Beetle, Paropsis atomaria which is a fave of my girlfriend's. <3

Victoria, Australia.

[creatureimages]

paropsina my beloved

[drhoz]

#2163 - Paropsis atomaria - Dotted Paropsine Leaf Beetle

I've blogged about the eggs and larvae before, when I found them years ago in Uranquinty. Here's an adult. It's become a pest in Eucalyptus plantations on the West Coast of the US and in Taiwan.

Willans Hill, Wagga Wagga, NSW

[nunoxaviermoreira]

Like a little tortoise by tessab101 Gorgeous beetle which I believe to be Paropsis maculata. Found in bushland in Warrimoo, Blue Mountains, NSW. https://flic.kr/p/2kt89Cv

[drhoz]

#1643 - Paropsis geographica

Another Paropsine Leaf Beetle. This species is more strongly speckled in specimens from the western end of its range, as here, than over in the SE corner of the country. I shook this pair of a Eucalyptus tree in Herron, south of Perth.

[drhoz]

#3392 - Paropsis latona

An unremarkable Paropsine leaf beetle, endemic to the SW of Australia.

Observed at a mothtrapping event I ran for the Friends of Allen Park bushland conservation group, at Swanbourne.

Allen Park, Swanbourne, Perth