Paropsis delittlei
This is the male of the species to illustrate the sexual dimorphism unique to a few species in this genus. I encountered this beetle while bush-walking on Hartz Mountains with David de Little, after whom this Beetle is named. David worked in forestry and knows every tree species in Tasmania, and is the leading expert in Tasmania
on the beetles that eat them.
The mainland sister species is the dimorphic <Paropsis intermedia>. Here is the male.
Paropsis delittlei is a small Australian eucalyptus leaf beetle found mostly in Tasmania but possibly also some records in southern Victoria.
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