Alice Springs Desert Park
ASDP BeetlesBlessed Leaf Beetle (Paropsisterna beata) Bush Cockroach (Ellipsidion humarale) Snout Beetle (Lixus) Transverse Ladybird
Alice Springs Desert Park is home to a great diversity of insects commonly known as Beetles, that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects.
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- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder:
- Adephaga
- Archostemata
- Myxophaga
- Polyphaga
- Family:
- Apionidae
- Brachyceridae
- Cetoniidae
Footnote & References
- Coleoptera, Beetles, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/COLEOPTERA
- Beetles: Order Coleoptera, Australian Museum, https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/beetles-order-coleoptera/
ASDP BeetlesBlessed Leaf Beetle (Paropsisterna beata) Bush Cockroach (Ellipsidion humarale) Snout Beetle (Lixus) Transverse Ladybird
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