Eucalyptus variegated beetle
Paropsisterna cloelia
The eucalyptus variegated beetle is a small, round beetle shaped like a little dome. Most of them are orange, but some are dark brown or black with an orange edge. It lives in Australia and eats nothing but eucalyptus leaves.
Lives in
Australia, on eucalyptus trees
Length
1 cm (0.39 in)
a little less than thisCan it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Both the beetles and their larvae eat the leaves of eucalyptus trees, young leaves and old ones.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 8.8 seconds
How big is Eucalyptus variegated beetle compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Eucalyptus variegated beetle about 0.41 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The grown-up beetle is less than 1 centimetre long.
2
Its larvae are yellow-green to olive-green with dark heads.
3
Big larvae have thin black stripes on their bodies.
you asked
Most asked questions about Eucalyptus variegated beetle
?What does the eucalyptus variegated beetle eat?
Only eucalyptus leaves, both the young ones and the old ones.
?Is the eucalyptus variegated beetle dangerous?
No. It is a small, harmless leaf beetle.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Paropsisterna cloelia
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Eucalyptus leaf beetle
Where the facts come from
- Paropsisterna cloelia (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by tjeales. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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