''Paropsisterna agricola'' or southern eucalyptus leaf beetle, is a small hemispherical

leaf beetle The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...

. They can vary from golden to grey. They have some black markings on the

pronotum The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on ea ...

. The epipleura (skirt) is sometimes red. This species has the ability to increase population very rapidly and can become a commercial pest to the timber industry attacking plantation forests.

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Beetles of Australia Chrysomelinae Taxa named by Félicien Chapuis {{Chrysomelinae-stub