Paropsisterna cloelia

1 Eucalyptus variegated beetle at Googong, NSW

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Identification history

Paropsisterna cloelia	14 Apr 2022	Amata
Paropsisterna cloelia 2	6 Mar 2022	KimberiRP
Unidentified	21 Jan 2022	SteveBorkowskis

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Looking for ID for the larger/darker beetle, I think the smaller one may be Paropsisterna variicollis. Is this a different species or just a different colouration of the same species?

5 comments

RogerF wrote:

22 Jan 2022

I think the male variicollis is trying it on!

RogerF wrote:

28 Feb 2022

There are a couple of black species of Paropsisterna on CNM

AlisonMilton wrote:

28 Feb 2022

@Birdy Daniel, The request is for the ID of the bigger black beetle, not the Paropsisterna variicollis. Thanks Alison

KimberiRP wrote:

6 Mar 2022

Both are Paropsisterna cloelia, which has both yellow and black variants. The name P. variicollis is now treated as a synonym of P. cloelia (see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aen.12476).

RogerF wrote:

6 Mar 2022

Thanks for the update Kim. Its seems ttis uodate might not have happened but for its introduction to WA and NZ. I wonder how many more species are in this position from DNA analysis. Remember Gonipterus.

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