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Diphucephala sp
These small bright green chafer scarabs are very numerous over several flowering shrubs (tea tree).
Associated with flowering tea tree and aggregating together in a small part of their potential range. They presumably have some olfactory mechanism to keep their population together.
Spotted on Oct 27, 2013
Submitted on Oct 27, 2013
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ALA lists 67 species in this genus and offers an image for a visually similar and local beetle called Diphucephala colaspidoides http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...