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Paropsisterna interstitialis Found on narrow leafed messmate. Rare. Australia,Geotagged,Paropsisterna,Paropsisterna interstitialis,Summer Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Paropsisterna interstitialis

Found on narrow leafed messmate. Rare.

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    Pudding4brains
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    Rare you say ... a quick look on google indeed looks like your recent photos are the only ones of this species so far :o) Congrats on the photos! And thanks again for sharing ... Posted 8 years ago
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      Martin Lagerwey
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      The description by Blackburn is 100 years ago. Blackburn type material is in the Adelaide museum but in no other collection that I know of. The difficulty was to decide if it is different from Paropsisterna atalanta and I cannot do a dissection on the female specimen. They are clearly closely related.
      Similar paropsisterna atalanta.
      Paropsisterna atalanta A pale beetle associated with heathland and alpine, possibly snowgum defines it. It is structurally similar to atalanta and shares the same habitat types. It is much more scarce. Possibly it is interstitialis but the original description is far to brief to be useful. Australia,Geotagged,Paropsisterna,Paropsisterna atalanta,Summer
       Posted 8 years ago

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The Paropsisterna interstitialis

Paropsisterna interstitialis is an alpine leaf eating beetle in the large genus Paropsisterna

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Similar species: Beetles
Species identified by Martin Lagerwey
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By Martin Lagerwey

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Uploaded Mar 21, 2017. Captured Jan 10, 2016 11:06 in 140 Cobungra Rd, Cobungra VIC 3898, Australia.
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  • Canon EOS 600D
  • f/16.0
  • 1/197s
  • ISO200
  • 65mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.