Peltoschema orphana
Leaf beetle at Acton, ACT
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| Peltoschema orphana | AlisonMilton | 20 Feb 2022 | |
| Peltoschema orphana | MichaelBedingfield | 8 Dec 2020 | |
| Peltoschema suturalis | MichaelBedingfield | 5 Aug 2020 | |
| Paropsisterna | AlisonMilton | 1 Aug 2020 | |
| Unverified | Roger | 29 Jul 2020 |
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User's notes
I cant find an ID for this leaf beetle he was on the hand rail at the ANBG
5 comments
3 Aug 2020
Hi Roger
If you have time, you can go thru the list of Paropsisterna at this page:
https://sites.google.com/site/paropsisternapages/
If you have time, you can go thru the list of Paropsisterna at this page:
https://sites.google.com/site/paropsisternapages/
4 Aug 2020
Hi Michael. thank you for site of the Paropsisterna. After looking through multiple times I couldn't find anything that matched. My wife and I noticed that neither Paropsis nor Paropsistera species were striped and were all more convex than this specimen, so we dug further and using the habitus drawings in Chris Reid's key to genera of Chrysomelidae, we noticed Peltoschema and it wasn't hard after that to find Peltoschema suturalis (Middle-bar Acacia leaf beetle). Images of this species in both iNaturalist and ALA show it to be quite a variable species - this one seems to have larger lateral red bands than most.
7 Dec 2020
The lateral red bands suggest to me that it is P. orphana rather than P. suturalis.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.109107-35.278148
- Altitude 608.9m
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 28 Jul 2020 01:28 PM Recorded on
- Roger Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Collections
- Roger Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Peltoschema orphana Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Insects
Species information
- Peltoschema orphana Scientific name
- Leaf beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 623.2m Recorded at altitude
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