Eucalyptus variegated beetle at Higgins, ACT
Identification history
| Paropsisterna cloelia | 14 Feb 2021 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Paropsisterna cloelia | 14 Feb 2021 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
Watched one crawl down a leaf, turn around and 'do its business'. About 90 minutes later I checked the tree and this beetle was now being mated, perhaps by one of the other two I had seen earlier. Also a number of larvae present, which I suspect are the same species (separate sighting).
The same species was again present a week later and there are now at least five clusters of eggs.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.029694-35.238317
- Altitude 586.7m
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 8 Feb 2021 11:36 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) AlisonMilton
Additional information
- Eucalyptus Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Mixed Gender
- Breeding behaviour Breeding behaviour
Species information
- Paropsisterna cloelia Scientific name
- Eucalyptus variegated beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1650.77m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Paropsisterna variicollis
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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