[3] Paropsides are small and specialist feeders on native Australian plants.

[4] The green Paropsides calypso is a native species which commonly attacks the lillipilli genus Syzygium.

[5] 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.