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 luteipennis is one of the species in a group of Jewel Beetles endemic to Australia.

Current observation in Atlas of Living Australia have them sighted in New South Wales from Wollongong to just north of Maitland, Stanthorpe in Queensland. This sighting is in Nerang Queensland.

Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan
Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan
Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan
Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan
Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan
Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan
Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan
Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan
Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan
Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan
Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan
Castiarina luteipennis, Nerang QLD © Hongming Kan

  • 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 luteipennis

Footnote & References

  1. Photographs © Hongming Kan
  2. Castiarina luteipennis (Gory, 1841), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Castiarina luteipennis

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)

Gold Coast RegionFauna

QueenslandQueensland Fauna Gold Coast Region Lamington National Park Southern Downs QLD