Gold Coast BeetlesAcacia Leaf Beetle (Dicranosterna picea) Brown Flower Beetle (Glycyphana stolata) Castiarina bella Castiarina luteipennis Chauliognathus flavipennis Darkling Beetle (Ecnolagria aurofasciata) Green Strip Leaf Beetle (Calomela pallida) Lycid Beetle (Porrostoma laterale) Mesolita lineolata Pandorea Leaf Beetle (Johannica gemellata) White Acacia Leaf Beetle (Dicranosterna circe)
Castiarina bella is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae, and one of the species in a group of Jewel Beetles endemic to Australia.
Endemic to Australia, it fairly common along the east coast of Australia between Melbourne and Brisbane. As is typical with other Castiarina species, it is often found on flowering shrubs and trees.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborders: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Buprestoidea
- Family: Buprestinae
- Tribe: Stigmoderina
- Subtribe: Stigmoderina
- Genus: Castiarina
- Species: Castiarina bella
Footnote & References
- Photographs © Hongming Kan
- Castiarina bella (Saunders, 1871), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/7e7ba68f-bc32-493d-a5af-911dd6973dc6#classification
- Castiarina bella, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/623154-Castiarina-bella
Gold Coast BeetlesAcacia Leaf Beetle (Dicranosterna picea) Brown Flower Beetle (Glycyphana stolata) Castiarina bella Castiarina luteipennis Chauliognathus flavipennis Darkling Beetle (Ecnolagria aurofasciata) Green Strip Leaf Beetle (Calomela pallida) Lycid Beetle (Porrostoma laterale) Mesolita lineolata Pandorea Leaf Beetle (Johannica gemellata) White Acacia Leaf Beetle (Dicranosterna circe)
QueenslandGold Coast Region Lamington National Park Southern Downs QLD