CastiarinaCastiarina andersoni Castiarina bella Castiarina crenata Castiarina decemmaculata Castiarina erythroptera Castiarina luteipennis Castiarina marginata Castiarina octospilota Castiarina rufipennis Castiarina scalaris Castiarina subtincta Castiarina xanthopilosa
The Castiarina is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, tribe Stigmoderini and the largest genera of beetles in Australia.
These beetles emerge during the summertime, when most of the native plants (including Eucalyptus and Leptospermum – Tea Trees) are in flower.
- Castiarina adelaidae
- Castiarina amabilis
- Castiarina andersoni
- Castiarina aureola
- Castiarina bella
- Castiarina bilyi
- Castiarina carminea
- Castiarina castelnaudi
- Castiarina cinnamomea
- Castiarina clancula
- Castiarina crenata
- Castiarina cupida
- Castiarina decemmaculata
- Castiarina erythroptera
- Castiarina frauciana
- Castiarina gardnerae
- Castiarina haswelli
- Castiarina imitator
- Castiarina jucunda
- Castiarina livida
- Castiarina luteipennis
- Castiarina maculicollis
- Castiarina marginata
- Castiarina mustelamajor
- Castiarina octospilota
- Castiarina placida
- Castiarina producta
- Castiarina punctatosulcata
- Castiarina rollei
- Castiarina rufipennis
- Castiarina rufipes
- Castiarina sanguinolenta
- Castiarina scalaris
- Castiarina sexplagiata
- Castiarina simulata lais
- Castiarina strigata
- Castiarina subtincta
- Castiarina turbulenta
- Castiarina xanthopilosa
Castiarina adelaidae
Castiarina amabilis
The Castiarina amabilis is a beautiful species found around Perth and in the South West of Western Australia.
Castiarina aureola
Castiarina bilyi
Castiarina carminea
Castiarina castelnaudi
Castiarina cinnamomea
Castiarina clancula
Castiarina cupida
Castiarina decemmaculata
— see Castiarina decemmaculata
Castiarina frauciana
— many thanks to Allen Sundholm and Mark Hanlon for ID.
Castiarina gardnerae
Castiarina haswelli
Castiarina imitator
— many thanks to Allen Sundholm for ID.
Castiarina jucunda
Castiarina livida
Castiarina maculicollis
Castiarina maculicollis specimen was found by Robert Richardson in Goonoo Goonoo NSW. Photograph by Allen Sundholm.
Castiarina marginata
— see Castiarina marginata
Castiarina mustelamajor
Castiarina octospilota
— see Castiarina octospilota
Castiarina placida
Castiarina producta
Castiarina punctatosulcata
This Castiarina punctatosulcata image from 2 photos compiled from stacks of 20 photos each view taken using a Canon 7D and Canon 100mm macro lens controlled by DSLR Remote Pro for Mac and combined using Helicon Focus on an iMac.
Castiarina rollei
Castiarina rollei © Ben Sale, Flickr
Ben Sale from UK, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Castiarina rufipennis
— see Castiarina rufipennis
Castiarina rufipes
Castiarina sanguinolenta
Castiarina scalaris
— see Castiarina scalaris
Castiarina sexplagiata
This Castiarina sexplagiata photo compiled from a stack of 30 photos taken using a Canon 7D and Canon 100mm macro lens controlled by DSLR Remote Pro for Mac and combined using Helicon Focus on an iMac.
Castiarina simulata lais
Castiarina strigata
Castiarina turbulenta
Images © as indicated below each photograph and in footnote
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Buprestoidea
- Family: Buprestidae
- Subfamily: Buprestinae
- Tribe: Stigmoderini
- Subtribe: Stigmoderina
- Genus: Castiarina
- Species:
at time of writing, Atlas of Living Australia listed 476 species
Footnote & References
- Castiarina (various), Photographs © Mark Hanlon
- Castiarina adelaidae, © Marianne Broug
- Castiarina (various), Photographs © Cory Dale
- Castiarina decemmaculata © Marc Newman
- Castiarina imitator © Kathryn Foley
- Castiarina livida © Marc Newman
- Castiarina maculicollis (specimen found by Robert Richardson) © Allen Sundholm
- Castiarina rollei © Ben Sale
- Castiarina rufipennis © Tony Eales
- Castiarina sexplagiata © Michael Jefferies
- Information and photographic source Australasian Beetles Only, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1180404322409639/
- Castiarina Gory & Laporte, 1838, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/ba71ff2e-24ab-4c4c-b8fd-d076cd3497ba
- Genus Castiarina, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/333313-Castiarina
- Castiarina, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castiarina
- Lang, P.J. ([Year]). ‘Buprestidae of South Australia’ website at http://syzygium.xyz/buprestidae/taxonomy.php
CastiarinaCastiarina andersoni Castiarina bella Castiarina crenata Castiarina decemmaculata Castiarina erythroptera Castiarina luteipennis Castiarina marginata Castiarina octospilota Castiarina rufipennis Castiarina scalaris Castiarina subtincta Castiarina xanthopilosa
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ColeopteraAmarygmus sp Anoplognathus sp Aphanestes gymnopleura Buprestidae Cerambycidae Coleoptera (Beetles) Curculionidae Digitonthophagus gazella Dung Beetle Eretes australis Helea scaphiformis Johannica gemellata (Pandorea Leaf Beetle) Ladybirds (Beetles) Lepidiota Lucanidae Neospades sp Lycidae Omorgus Paropsine Beetle Paropsisterna sp Pittosporum Leaf Beetle (Lamprolina impressicollis) Protaetia fusca Pterohelaeus sp Rhipiceridae Scarabaeidae Xylophilostenus octophyllus
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