Calomela bartoni (common name Acacia leaf beetle)[2] is a beetle in the Chrysomelidae (leaf beetle) family, which is found in New South Wales and Victoria.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Calomela |
| Species: | C. bartoni
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| Binomial name | |
| Calomela bartoni (Baly, 1856)
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Australica bartoni Baly, 1856 | |
It was first described by Joseph Sugar Baly in 1856 as Australica bartoni,[1][3] It was redescribed as a new species, Calomela nigricornis by Arthur Mills Lea in 1903,[1][4] but in 2006 Chris Reid judged these two species to be synonymous; the appropriate genus to be Calomela; and therefore, since Baly's description was prior to that of Lea the species name became Calomela bartoni.[1][5]
Ecology edit
Trevor Hawkeswood reports its larvae as feeding on Acacia decurrens.[6]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e "Australian Faunal Directory:Calomela bartoni (Baly, 1856)". biodiversity.org.au. Archived from the original on 23 September 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
- ^ "Calomela bartoni sightings - Canberra Nature Map". canberra.naturemapr.org. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
- ^ Joseph Sugar Baly (1856). "Monograph of the Australian species of Chrysomela, Phyllocharis, and allied genera. (Continued from page 186.)". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 3: 245. ISSN 2053-2520. Wikidata Q108670588.
- ^ Arthur Mills Lea (1903). "Descriptions of some new species of Australian and Tasmanian Chrysomelidae". unknown. 9: 384–431. Wikidata Q108619848.
- ^ Chris A.M. Reid (14 August 2006). "A taxonomic revision of the Australian Chrysomelinae, with a key to the genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Zootaxa. 1292 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.1292.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. Wikidata Q97466695.
- ^ Trevor J. Hawkeswood (1994), Review of the biology and host plants of Australian Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) associated with Acacia (Mimosaceae) (PDF), pp. 191–204, doi:10.1007/978-94-011-1781-4_12, Wikidata Q108670693