Sapphire Coast InsectsSyndesus cornutus

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The Sapphire Coast is home to an amazing range of Insects can be found just about everywhere… within our urban homes, our gardens, parks, reserves, forests and waterways. Their importance cannot be understated, important in pollination, feeding on other insects, providing foods for other insects and larger predators.

Belonging to the class Insecta, they are a diverse group of hexapod invertebrates and is the largest group within the phylum Arthropoda. The classes includes ants, termites, butterflies, moths, crickets, mantids, grasshoppers, beetles, just to name some of them.

Botany Bay Diamond Weevil (Chrysolopus spectabilis), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Botany Bay Diamond Weevil (Chrysolopus spectabilis), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Carcass Beetles (genus Omorgus), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Carcass Beetles (genus Omorgus), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Castiarina bella, Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Castiarina bella, Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Castiarina erythroptera, Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Castiarina erythroptera, Bermagui NSW © Deb Taylor
Cyrioides imperialis, Bermagui NSW © Deb Taylor
Cyrioides imperialis, Bermagui NSW © Deb Taylor
Green-blotched Moth (Cosmodes elegans), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Green-blotched Moth (Cosmodes elegans), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Onthophagus declivis (Declivis Dung Beetle), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Onthophagus declivis (Declivis Dung Beetle), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Orcus australasiae (Orange-spotted Ladybird), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Orcus australasiae (Orange-spotted Ladybird), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Paropsisterna pictipes, Bermagui NSW © Deb Taylor
Paropsisterna pictipes, Bermagui NSW © Deb Taylor
Syndesus cornutus, Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Syndesus cornutus, Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
White-striped Weevil (Perperus lateralis), Bermagui NSW © Deb Taylor
White-striped Weevil (Perperus lateralis), Bermagui NSW © Deb Taylor
Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus (Red-headed Spider Ant), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus (Red-headed Spider Ant), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly (Simosyrphus grandicornis), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor
Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly (Simosyrphus grandicornis), Wallaga Lake NSW © Deb Taylor

This page is a work in progress, more information coming…


  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Arthropoda
  • Subphylum: Hexapoda
  • Class: Insecta

Footnote & References

  1. Photographs © Deb Taylor
  2. Flora and Fauna, Eden Community Site, https://www.eden.nsw.au/flora-and-fauna/

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