The members meeting will be held at Melbourne Museum and via Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to members prior to the meeting.

A pre meeting dinner will be held at 6:00pm (sharp) St Andrews Hotel, Nicholson St Fitzroy. No need to book.

Speaker - Dr Gunter Maywald

Gunter will be giving a talk on “The biology and systematics of the eucalypt leaf beetle genus Trachymela”.

Gunter is an expert on Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) and boasts an amazing collection comprised of over 5000 specimens of Trachymela, 3500 Paropsisterna, 2000 Paropsis, plus small numbers of other paropsine genera. Nearly all the specimens were collected by Gunter during his trips across Australia, including Western Australia and Tasmania, and with the bulk of the samples from Queensland and New South Wales.