Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Chrysomelidae Rank Genus | Phylum Arthropoda Order Coleoptera Subfamily Chrysomelinae | |
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Similar Beetle, Calomela, Trachymela, Paropsisterna, Paropsis | ||
Dicranosterna is a genus of leaf beetles, in the subfamily Chrysomelinae.
These beetles are hemispherical and the larvae are globular (spherical). The elytra have coarse punctures which are non striate (non aligned).
There are 36 species and they occur throughout Australia.
Dicranosterna is endemic to Australia. Host-plant is Acacia The record for Eucalyptus (Jolivet and Hawkeswood 1995) is erroneous (Reid 2002c). Larvae are globular, with inconspicuous setae and a pair of dorsal glands, and lack apicoventral (rear) pseudopoda (prolegs).
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