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Tortoise leaf beetle

Paropsis roseola

Description:

A medium leaf beetle with blushed pink pronotum and line along skirt. The pitting is rather irregular but looks somewhat like a small version of the widespread and common Paropsis atomaria.

Habitat:

On Eucalyptus

Notes:

This specimen was found by Geof Walker Thank you

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3 Comments

MartinL
MartinL 9 years ago

Ha! we have the ID ..... Paropsis roseola
roseola is a red rash, as in the measles

http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations...
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
Thank you Gunter Maywald

MartinL
MartinL 9 years ago

Thank you Mark.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Sunburnt pronotum? Another good one.

MartinL
Spotted by
MartinL

Mildura, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Apr 18, 2014
Submitted on Apr 20, 2014

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