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Glorious Leaf beetle
Paropsisterna annularis
-37.7357, 145.27
Field Notes
Description:
This delightfully colored leaf beetle is more pale than the usual specimens. We know they overwinter as an adult and I suspect that being late in the season it might be a winter form.
Habitat:
I have found both forms numerous times on one large tree in a state park.
Notes:
Here is the brighter form
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/224246034.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/122336206
This species differs from gloriosa by having an annulus of yellow blotches on the postmedial half of the combined elytra.
Reference Links:
Sighting - BowerBird
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedMay 8, 2014
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