''Dicranosterna'' is a genus of

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s, in the subfamily

Chrysomelinae The Chrysomelinae are a subfamily of leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), commonly known as broad-bodied leaf beetles or broad-shouldered leaf beetles. It includes some 3,000 species around the world. The best-known member is the notorious Colorado pot ...

. These beetles are hemispherical and the larvae are globular (spherical). The

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have coarse punctures which are non

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(non aligned). There are 36 species and they occur throughout Australia. ''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).

Gallery

File:Dicranosterna.JPG, ''Dicranosterna vexabilis'' File:Dicranosterna semipunctat2.JPG, ''Dicranosterna semipunctata'' File:Dicranosterna immaculata Heyfield.JPG, ''Dicranosterna immaculata'' larva

Species

* '' 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

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5335132 Chrysomelinae Beetles of Australia Chrysomelidae genera Taxa named by Victor Motschulsky