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Alice Springs InsectsAntlion (Heoclisis fundata) Ants (Formicidae) Bees Beetles Butterflies & Moths (Lepidopterans) Diptera Dragonflies Orthoptera True Bugs (Heteroptera) Wasps

Alice Springs and Central Australia is home to a great diversity of insects, and with the growing interest, especially by “citizen scientist”, who have contributed enormously to the understanding of the world around us, it has been wonderful to see the many online contributions.

We present here a selection of insects to be found here in Alice Springs and Central Australia. Click through the categories and thumbnail images to go to the related pages. This section is a work in progress, so make sure you check back over time, as we add more observations from Alice Springs.

Opisthopsis sp (Strobe ant), Alice Springs Desert Park NT — Ants (Formicidae)

Golden-browed Resin Bee (Megachile aurifrons), Alice Springs, NT — Alice Springs Bees

Chlorobapta frontalis (Flower Beetle), Alice Springs NT — Alice Springs Beetles

Blue Moon Butterfly (Hypolimnas bolina) — Butterflies & Moths

Robber Fly (genus Bathypogon, family Asilidae), Alice Springs NT — Alice Springs Diptera

Male Scarlet Percher (Diplacodes haematodes), Alice Springs, NT — Alice Springs Dragonflies

Choerocoris paganus, Alice Springs Desert Park NT — Alice Springs True Bugs

Woodger's Gumleaf Katydid (Terpandrus woodgeri), Alice Springs NT — Alice Springs Orthoptera

Abispa ephippium (Mud-nest Wasp) and Delta latreillei (Orange Potter Wasp), Alice Springs NT — Alice Springs Wasps

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta

Footnote & References

Insecta, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/17c9fd64-3c07-4df5-a33d-eda1e065e99f
Insects (Class Insecta), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/47158-Insecta

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