Callistola elegans

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Suborder:Polyphaga
Callistola elegans
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Callistola
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Callistola elegans
Gressitt, 1960

Callistola elegans is a species of tortoise and leaf-mining beetles in the tribe Cryptonychini. It is found in south-western and north-western New Guinea.

Adults reach a length of about 16 mm. They are golden yellow to pitchy or greenish. The head is shiny black above and pale beneath and the antennae are bluish black. The elytra are yellow, each with two metallic green bands.[1]

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