ColeopteraColeoptera Index Amarygmus sp Anoplognathus sp Aphanestes gymnopleura Aphanesthes succine Aporocera speciosa Atractocerus crassicornis Blackburnium cavicolle Buprestidae Carphurus Cerambycidae Carabidae Chalcopteroides (Chalcopterus Beetle) Christmas Beetles Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles) Coleoptera (Beetles) Curculionidae Dicranolaius cinctus Dung Beetle Eretes australis Helea scaphiformis Hydrophilus Ladybirds (Beetles) Lepidiota Lucanidae Lycidae Malachiinae Mordellidae (Pintail Beetles) Neospades sp Omorgus Paropsine Beetle Paropsisterna sp Phorticosomus sp Protaetia fusca Pterohelaeus sp Rhinotia haemoptera Rhinotia suturalis Rhipiceridae Scarabaeidae Tenebrionidae Xylophilostenus octophyllus
The family Lycidae, in the order Coleoptera are a large cosmopolitan group of beetles found around the world and who are collectively group under the common name of the Net-winged Beetles. The common name refers to the net-like pattern of ridges on the elytra (wing-covers).
The beetles of this family have an elongated shape and are usually found on flowers or stems. The adults of some species of Lycidae are nectarivores, others may only have short lives as adult, during which they may not feed at all.
The adult males are approximately 10–15 mm in length, whilst the females are slightly larger. The head shape of Lycid Beetles are triangular in appearance and they have long, thick, serrated looking antennae.
Most species are brick-red to orange in colour, a warning colour to potential predators, that they are toxic. There are species that ae paler in colour, whilst others have black markings or may be more black then red-orange.
The predaceous larvae are often found growing under bark or in leaf litter. Pictured here is the strange looking “Trilobite” larva (genus Porrostoma, family Lycidae)3.
Following is another unknown Lycidae larva.
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- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Family: Lycidae
- Subfamily:
- Calochrominae
- Erotinae
- Metriorrhynchinae
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Elateroidea
- Family: Lycidae
- Subfamily: Metriorrhynchinae
- Tribe: Metriorrhynchini
- Genus: Achras
- Species Achras limbatum
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Elateroidea
- Family: Lycidae
- Subfamily: Metriorrhynchinae
- Tribe: Metriorrhynchini
- Genus: Metriorrhynchus
- Species Metriorrhynchus flavolimbatus
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Elateroidea
- Family: Lycidae
- Subfamily: Metriorrhynchinae
- Tribe: Metriorrhynchini
- Genus: Cladophorus
- Species: Cladophorus cinctus
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Elateroidea
- Family: Lycidae
- Subfamily: Metriorrhynchinae
- Tribe: Metriorrhynchini
- Genus: Porrostoma
Footnote & References
- Photographs © Tony Eales
- Net-winged Beetles (Family Lycidae), tjeales, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&taxon_id=49360&user_id=tjeales&verifiable=any
- “Trilobite” larva (page 42), The BowerBird Bugle, Edition 51, Ken Walker, 5 May 2017 Museum Victoria, https://researchdata.museum.vic.gov.au/BowerBird_Bugle/Edition_51.pdf
- Metriorrhynchus flavolimbatus Lea, 1921, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Metriorrhynchus flavolimbatus
- Trichalus ampliatus Waterhouse, 1877, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Trichalus ampliatus
- Cladophorus cinctus (Waterhouse, 1877), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Cladophorus cinctus
- Porrostoma Castelnau, 1838, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Porrostoma
ColeopteraColeoptera Index Amarygmus sp Anoplognathus sp Aphanestes gymnopleura Aphanesthes succine Aporocera speciosa Atractocerus crassicornis Blackburnium cavicolle Buprestidae Carphurus Cerambycidae Carabidae Chalcopteroides (Chalcopterus Beetle) Christmas Beetles Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles) Coleoptera (Beetles) Curculionidae Dicranolaius cinctus Dung Beetle Eretes australis Helea scaphiformis Hydrophilus Ladybirds (Beetles) Lepidiota Lucanidae Lycidae Malachiinae Mordellidae (Pintail Beetles) Neospades sp Omorgus Paropsine Beetle Paropsisterna sp Phorticosomus sp Protaetia fusca Pterohelaeus sp Rhinotia haemoptera Rhinotia suturalis Rhipiceridae Scarabaeidae Tenebrionidae Xylophilostenus octophyllus
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