A lot of beetles have visited my moth light recently. This one is one of the Tortoise beetles which belong to the family Chrysomelidae and the genus <I>Paropsis</I>. It's name is <I>P. tasmanica</I>. There does not appear to be a common name for it so perhaps we can call it the Tasmanian Tortoise beetle as it seems to be mostly confined to Tasmania ( I did come across one apparent record on  the Australian  mainland). 

I took the photos with a Canon 7D and Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro lens. I used some white paper towel as the background which made it easy to isolate the beetle later.

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