Biology:Allsortsia

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Short description: Genus of leaf beetles from Australia

Allsortsia
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Spilopyrinae
Genus: Allsortsia
Reid & Beatson, 2010[2]
Species:
A. maculata
Binomial name
Allsortsia maculata
(Lea, 1922)[1]
Synonyms

Macrogonus maculatus Lea, 1922

Allsortsia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Spilopyrinae. It contains only one species, Allsortsia maculata. It is found only in Australia , in the tropical rainforest of north Queensland.

The genus is named after liquorice allsorts, which A. maculata vaguely resembles.

A. maculata is known only from two type specimens collected in 1909 from Kuranda, adjacent to the Wet Tropics.[2]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q58041564 entry