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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Spilopyrinae |
| Genus: | Allsortsia Reid & Beatson, 2010[2] |
| Species: | A. maculata
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| Binomial name | |
| Allsortsia maculata | |
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Macrogonus maculatus Lea, 1922 | |
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
edit- ^ Lea, A. M. (1922). "On Australian Coleoptera. Part IV. Family Chrysomelidae". Records of the South Australian Museum. 2 (2): 271–308.
- ^ a b Reid, C. A. M.; Beatson, M. (2010). "Revision of the Australo-Papuan genus Macrolema Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Spilopyrinae), with description of a new genus" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2486: 1–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2486.1.1. (Erratum: doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2520.1.3)
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