Paropsisterna agricola or southern eucalyptus leaf beetle, is a small hemispherical leaf beetle. They can vary from golden to grey. They have some black markings on the pronotum. The epipleura (skirt) is sometimes red.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Paropsisterna |
| Species: | P. agricola
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| Paropsisterna agricola (Chapuis, 1877)
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This species has the ability to increase population very rapidly and can become a commercial pest to the timber industry attacking plantation forests.[1]
References
edit- ^ "Southern Eucalyptus leaf beetle" (PDF). Forestry Tasmania. April 1999. Retrieved 15 Nov 2015.