Belair National Park BeetlesJewel Beetle (Castiarina crenata) White-spotted Pintail Beetle (Hoshihananomia leucosticta)
Belair National Park and surrounding region is home to a diversity of insects that are commonly known as Beetles, forming the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder:
- Adephaga
- Archostemata
- Myxophaga
- Polyphaga
- Family:
- Apionidae
- Brachyceridae
- Buprestidae
- Cetoniidae
- Mordellidae
Footnote & References
- Hoshihananomia leucosticta, Photographs © Marianne Broug
- Hoshihananomia leucosticta, mariannebroug, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&user_id=mariannebroug&verifiable=any&taxon_id=829186
- Hoshihananomia leucosticta (Germar, 1848), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/3042c04b-4aa6-43e0-a029-9079649091a8
Belair National Park BeetlesJewel Beetle (Castiarina crenata) White-spotted Pintail Beetle (Hoshihananomia leucosticta)
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