ASDP Beetles

Alice Springs Desert Park

ASDP BeetlesBush 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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Bush Cockroach (Ellipsidion humarale) with pupal case of Hyalarcta nigrescens, Alice Springs Desert Park NT — Bush Cockroach (Ellipsidion humarale)

Snout Beetle (genus Lixus, family Curculionidae), Alice Springs NT — Snout Beetle (genus Lixus, family Curculionidae)

Transverse Ladybird (Coccinella transversalis), Alice Springs Desert Park NT — Transverse Ladybird (Coccinella transversalis)

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/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/5c387616-0cb4-42f0-936e-7ec22d576939
Beetles: Order Coleoptera, Australian Museum, https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/beetles-order-coleoptera/

ASDP BeetlesBush Cockroach (Ellipsidion humarale) Snout Beetle (Lixus) Transverse Ladybird

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