Lilly pilly leaf beetle
Paropsides calypso
The lilly pilly leaf beetle is a leaf beetle from Australia. It comes from the warm rainforests along the east coast. Its name comes from the lilly pilly, an Australian bush with shiny leaves.
Lives in
The rainforests of eastern Australia. People also carried it to south-western Australia and New Zealand
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting you.
What does it eat?
Like other leaf beetles, it eats leaves. Its name tells us it likes lilly pilly.
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)
Lilly pilly leaf beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It belongs to the leaf beetles, a huge family of beetles that eat plants.
2
It has been found in New Zealand since 2020.
3
It has also spread to the south-west corner of Australia, far from its rainforest home.
you asked
Most asked questions about Lilly pilly leaf beetle
?Is the lilly pilly leaf beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
?Where does the lilly pilly leaf beetle live?
In the rainforests of eastern Australia, and now also in south-western Australia and New Zealand.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Paropsides calypso
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Lilly pilly beetle, Lilli pilli beetle, Lilli pilli leaf beetle
Where the facts come from
- Paropsides calypso (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 Martinlagerwey. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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