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Paropsisterna sp.
About 10mm long found on eucalyptus leaf.
In an outer urban nature reserve with a sparse mix of grasses, small eucalyptus, acacia, kunzea, pomaderris and others.
Undescribed species.
Spotted on Sep 22, 2014
Submitted on Sep 22, 2014
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I think I need to rework all my paopsine spottings.
This is Paropsisterna of course. We do not know which species.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/817...
The lateral margin of the pronotum is always a smooth curve in paropsisterna .
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/863...
For its closest ally, Paropsis, the margin is usually crenulate (wavy) http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/116...
or occasionally emarginate (with a notch at the anterior corner) such as in pictipennis. http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations...