Dicranosterna is a genus of leaf beetles, in the subfamily Chrysomelinae.
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| Genus: | Dicranosterna Motschulsky, 1860
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These beetles are hemispherical and the larvae are globular (spherical).[1] The elytra have coarse punctures which are non striate (non aligned).
There are 36 species[2] and they occur throughout Australia.[3]
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).[4]
Gallery edit
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Dicranosterna vexabilis -
Dicranosterna semipunctata -
Dicranosterna immaculata larva
Species edit
- Dicranosterna abdominalis Chapuis, 1877
- Dicranosterna aeraria (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna alessandrae (Daccordi, 2005)
- Dicranosterna bicolor (Daccordi, 2003)
- Dicranosterna bipuncticollis (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna circe (Stål, 1860)
- Dicranosterna coccinelloides (Olivier, 1807)
- Dicranosterna contracta (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna foraminosa (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna globata (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna globulosa (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna hastata (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna hemisphaerica (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna immaculata (Marsham, 1808)
- Dicranosterna lateralis (Blackburn, 1893)
- Dicranosterna limbata (Weise, 1917)
- Dicranosterna mimulav (Blackburn, 1890)
- Dicranosterna ngarinmana (Daccordi, 2003)
- Dicranosterna nigrosuturalis (Lea, 1924)
- Dicranosterna novemlineata (Lea, 1924)
- Dicranosterna oblonga (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna palmensis (Blackburn, 1896)
- Dicranosterna picea (Olivier, 1807)
- Dicranosterna prolixa (Weise, 1917)
- Dicranosterna rubeola (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna ruffoi Daccordi, 2003
- Dicranosterna selene (Blackburn, 1901)
- Dicranosterna semipunctata (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna septentrionalis (Weise, 1917)
- Dicranosterna stali (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna subaeraria (Lea, 1924)
- Dicranosterna subovalis (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna trimorpha (Lea, 1924)
- Dicranosterna umbrata (Chapuis, 1877)
- Dicranosterna valica Daccordi, 2003
- Dicranosterna vexabilis Weise, 1917