Alice Springs Desert Park
ASDP Insects > Insects Index
The Alice Springs Desert Park provides a great opportunity to spot some of the diverse insects (class Insecta) that live in Central Australia. This group of hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the phylum Arthropoda, includes butterflies, crickets, moths, ants, termites, mantids, grasshoppers, crickets, just to name some of the insects.
Check out some of the insect species that have been documented in the desert park.

For more information on insects check out our main section:
Insects | Ants (Formicidae) | Central Australia Insects | Alice Springs Insects.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Superfamily: Vespoidea
- Family: Formicidae
Footnote & References
- Many thanks for ID to Matthew Connors, Curator, iNaturalistAU, Observation: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/108359395
- Insecta, Insects, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/INSECTA
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