Saffron eucalyptus leaf beetle (Paropsisterna crocata)

This one was drawn to lights at the local primary school at night.
Quite large for a Paropsine beetle at about 15mm long.
Clean, soft shades of cream and pink not common in this group.

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Annette Flottwell

Lion

beautiful pattern and shape, great find. Posted 9 years ago
1. Mark Ridgway
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks Annette. She is a nice one. So many of our hundreds of eucy beetles are mottley patchy scratchy looking things. Posted 9 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    The diversity is incredible, it's like looking at the same beetle with hundreds of different outfits :) Posted 9 years ago

The Saffron eucalyptus leaf beetle

Paropsisterna crocata is one of the larger eucalyptus leaf beetles native to Australia. This is possibly the largest of all species of the Paropsisterna and is easily mistaken for Paropsis. The common name 'Saffron' is proposed based on the latin name given to this beetle when first described by Boisduval in 1835.

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Similar species: Beetles

Species identified by Mark Ridgway