Insects at the PondsPie-dish Beetle Tawny Coster
The Pie-dish Beetle (Helea scaphiformis) photographed at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds in the Northern Territory. The common name thought to be derived from the shape, and belongs to the group of Darkling Beetles (family Tenebrionidae).
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea
- Family: Tenebrionidae
- Informal: Tenebrionoid Branch
- Subfamily: Tenebrioninae
- Tribe: Heleini
- Subtribe: Heleina
- Genus: Helea
- Species: Helea scaphiformis
Insects at the PondsPie-dish Beetle Tawny Coster
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