Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)
A pictorial reference for the main genera of the Chrysomelidae family:
https://sites.google.com/site/leafbeetlesofaustralia/
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LPW
wrote:
Yesterday
Thanks, I just let them be … the beetles and the orchids!😁
Stethopachys formosa
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
Yesterday
Good on you for growing both orchids and beetles
Stethopachys formosa
AlisonMilton
wrote:
7 Sep 2025
@WendyEM @Hejor1 @DiBickers Peltoschema hamadryas would make sense as I had many of these still on my Queensland Silver Wattle even throughout winter. I now have so many larvae falling into the bird bath under the tree that I had to empty it rather than saving caterpillars every morning.
Peltoschema hamadryas
Significant sightings
- Aporocera rufescens at Rendezvous Creek, ACT
- Aporocera (Aporocera) iridipennis at Vincentia, NSW
- Calligrapha bicolorata at Shark Creek, NSW
- Dicranosterna immaculata at Surf Beach, NSW
- Peltoschema medioflava at Black Mountain
- Callidemum sp01 at Rosedale, NSW
- Cadmus (Cadmus) strigillatus
- Peltoschema lepida at Rendezvous Creek, ACT
- Paropsisterna pictipes at Wambrook, NSW
- Paropsisterna rufobrunnea at Mulloon, NSW
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