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.

Austral Ellipsidion (Ellipsidion australe), Belair SA © Marianne Broug
Austral Ellipsidion (Ellipsidion australe), Belair SA © Marianne Broug
Castiarina crenata on Leptospermum sp, Belair SA © Marianne Broug
Castiarina crenata on Leptospermum sp, Belair SA © Marianne Broug
Large Spotted Ladybird (Harmonia conformis), Belair SA © Marianne Broug
Large Spotted Ladybird (Harmonia conformis), Belair SA © Marianne Broug
Hoshihananomia leucosticta, Belair SA © Marianne Broug
Hoshihananomia leucosticta, Belair SA © Marianne Broug

  • 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

  1. Hoshihananomia leucosticta, Photographs © Marianne Broug
  2. Hoshihananomia leucosticta, mariannebroug, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&user_id=mariannebroug&verifiable=any&taxon_id=829186
  3. 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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