Paropsides is a genus of beetles commonly called leaf beetles and in the subfamily Chrysomelinae. They are distributed from eastern Asia to eastern Australia.[1] Paropsides are small and specialist feeders on native Australian plants.There are 21 species in Australia[2] and they occur mainly on the south-eastern states.[3] The green Paropsides calypso is a native species which commonly attacks the lillipilli genus Syzygium. [4] Paropsides opposita feeds on Tea tree Melaleuca sp.
Paropsides belongs to the Paropsis-group of genera, with similar head, appendages, prosternum, elytra, tarsi and larva. Among these genera it is defined by possession of a single attribute, a full complement of pronotal (thoracic) trichobothria (bristles), which is almost certainly a plesiomorphy. Paropsides is therefore unlikely to be monophyletic.[1]