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Thynnid Wasps mating, Santa Teresa Rd, Central Australia © Dorothy Latimer

Central Australia Insects

Central Australia InsectsBeetles Moths Native Bees Megachile aurifrons (Golden-browed Resin Bee)

Central Australia is home to a diverse collection of Insects (class Insecta) – a diverse group of hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the phylum Arthropoda. This class includes butterflies, crickets, moths, ants, termites, mantids, grasshoppers, crickets, just to name some of the insects.

Click on the following thumbnail images to check out some of the insects to be found in Central Australia…

Pie-dish Beetle (Helea scaphiformis), member of Darkling Beetles (family Tenebrionidae), Alice Springs Sewage Ponds © Dorothy Latimer
Central Australia Beetles
Exoneurella eremophila on the Golden Everlasting (Xerochrysum bracteatum)
Central Australia Native Bees
Convolvulus Hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli), Alice Springs NT
Central Ausralia Moths

More information can be found on our Alice Springs Insects page:

Opisthopsis sp (Strobe ant), Alice Springs Desert Park NT
Alice Springs Ants (Formicidae)
Golden-browed Resin Bee (Megachile aurifrons), Alice Springs, NT
Alice Springs Bees
Chlorobapta frontalis (Flower Beetle), Alice Springs NT
Alice Springs Beetles
Calolampra sp (Bark Cockroach), Alice Springs NT
Alice Springs Blattodea
Blue Moon Butterfly (Hypolimnas bolina)
Alice Springs Butterflies & Moths
Phoracantha punctata (Longhorn Beetle), Alice Springs NT
Alice Springs Coleoptera
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
Spiny Bark Mantis (Gyromantis sp), Alice Springs NT
Alice Springs Mantodea – Mantises
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


Check out some of the following sections on Insect:


Thynnid Wasps mating, Santa Teresa Rd, Central Australia © Dorothy Latimer
Thynnid Wasps mating, Santa Teresa Rd, Central Australia © Dorothy Latimer

Check out some of the genus/species listed within our main and other sections:


  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Arthropoda
  • Subphylum: Hexapoda
  • Class: Insecta
    • Informal:
      • Apterygotes
      • Pterygotes
    • Subclass:
      • Archaeognatha
      • Dicondylia

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