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.

Allsortsia
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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
Binomial name
Allsortsia maculata
(Lea, 1922)[1]
Synonyms

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

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  1. ^ Lea, A. M. (1922). "On Australian Coleoptera. Part IV. Family Chrysomelidae". Records of the South Australian Museum. 2 (2): 271–308.
  2. ^ 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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