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Genus of beetles

Dicranosterna
Dicranosterna immaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Chrysomelinae
Genus: Dicranosterna
Motschulsky, 1860
Species

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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).

Gallery

  • Dicranosterna vexabilis Dicranosterna vexabilis
  • Dicranosterna semipunctata Dicranosterna semipunctata
  • Dicranosterna immaculata larva Dicranosterna immaculata larva

Species

References

  1. "Genus: Dicranosterna".
  2. "Genus: Dicranosterna".
  3. "Genus: Dicranosterna".
  4. "Zootaxa" (PDF).
Taxon identifiers
Dicranosterna
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