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Scientific Name |
Common Name & Notes |
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Coleoptera sp. |
?Cleridae, ?Cucujoidea, 4.5 mm, hairy, yellow & black |
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Carabidae - Ground Beetles |
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Harpalinae |
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Ambylstomus sp. |
2.5 mm, black, elytral edges yellowish, legs yellowish brown |
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Demetrida sp. |
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Demetrida vittata |
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Egadroma sp. |
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Euthenaris sp. |
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Lecanomerus sp. 1 |
4.5-5 mm, reddish brown, posterior half of elytra blackish, elytra with pink & green reflections |
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Lecanomerus sp. 2 |
2.5-4 mm, black head, red pronotum, black elytra with orange margin & suture |
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Microlestodes macleayi |
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Notiobia (Anisotarsus) germari |
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Philophloeus sp. |
14 mm, medium reddish brown, paler beneath |
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Rhytisternus sp. |
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Sarticus sp. |
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Paussinae |
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Arthropterus sp. |
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Pseudomorphinae |
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Sphallomorpha colymbetoides |
Meat ant carabid |
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Sphallomorpha nitiduloides |
Meat ant carabid |
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Scaritinae |
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Carenum sp. |
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Clivina sp. 1 |
anterior half of elytra red |
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Clivina sp. 2 |
elytra entirely black |
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Trechinae |
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?Tachys sp. |
2 mm, elytra pale biscuit & black, pronotum orangey |
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Dytiscidae - Predacious Diving Beetles |
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Eretes australis |
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Necterosoma penicillatus |
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Platynectes decempunctatus |
Water beetle |
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Rhantus suturalis |
Water beetle |
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Gyrinidae - Whirligig Beetles |
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Aulonogyrus strigosus |
Striped whirligig |
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Hydrophilidae - Water Scavenger Beetles |
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Coelostoma sp. |
c. 3 mm, black forebody, brown elytra & legs |
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Enochrus (Methydrus) sp. |
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Helochares (Hydrobaticus) tristis |
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Histeridae - Hister Beetles, Pill Beetles |
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Saprinus pseudocyaneus |
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Leiodidae - Carrion Beetles |
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Eublackburniella sp. |
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Zeadolopus sp. |
1.5 mm, medium reddish brown |
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Silphidae - Burying Beetles |
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Ptomaphila lacrymosa |
Lachrymose burying beetle |
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Staphylinidae - Rove Beetles |
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Aleocharinae sp. |
4 mm, first two adbominal segments & pronotum orange, antennae broad |
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? sp. nr. Leptacinus |
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Anotylus sp. |
dark brown, black elytra, brown legs |
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Calodera sp. 1 |
c. 2.7 mm, orange & black |
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?Calodera sp. 2 |
c. 2 mm, elytra dark brown with humeral region orange |
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?Carpelimus sp. |
2.5 mm |
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Creophilus erythrocephalus |
Devil's coachhorse |
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Creophilus lanio |
Devil's coachhorse |
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?Lathrobium sp. |
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Leucocraspedum sp. |
Myllaena sp. |
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?Neobisnius sp. |
c. 3 mm, dark brown elytra |
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Paederus sp. |
4 sternites orange |
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Paederus cruenticollis |
Whiplash rove beetle |
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Philonthus sp. 1 |
8 mm, stout, all black except brown elytra |
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Philonthus sp. 2 |
tricoloured antennae, yellowish legs and abdominal tip |
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Scopaeus sp. |
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"Tachinus" sp. |
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Thyreocephalus ?cyanopterus |
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Pselaphidae - Dwarf Beetles |
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Ctenisophus sp. |
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?Eupinoda sp. |
1.5 mm |
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Palimbolus ?dimidiatus |
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Palimbolus ?dimidiatus |
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Tyraphus sp. |
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Lucanidae - Stag Beetles |
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Lamprima aurata |
Green stag beetle |
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Passalidae - Bess Beetles |
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Aulacocyclus edentulus |
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Aulacocyclus mastersi |
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Pharochilus dilatatus |
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Trogidae - Carcase Beetles |
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Omorgus alternans |
Carcase beetle |
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Omorgus candidus |
Carcase beetle |
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Geotrupidae |
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Australobolbus sp. |
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Scarabaeidae - Scarab Beetles, Chafers, Dung Beetles |
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Aphodiinae - Lesser Dung Beetles |
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*Aphodius fimetarius |
Dung beetle |
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Aphodius (Acrossidius) tasmaniae |
Blackheaded pasture cockchafer |
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Ataenius macilentus |
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Proctophanes sculptus |
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Cetoniinae - Rosechafers |
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Chondropyga dorsalis |
Cowboy beetle |
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Eupoecila australasiae |
Fiddler beetle |
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Microvalgus sp. |
uniformly red-brown, white scales |
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Microvalgus ?dubius |
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Microvalgus?nigrinus |
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Neorrhina punctatum |
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Dynastinae - Horned Scarabs |
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Dasygnathus trituberculatus |
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Melolonthinae - Chafers |
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Automolius vulgaris |
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Colpolchila obesa |
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Diphucephala smaragdula |
Green scarab |
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Heteronyx sp. 1 |
Key 11 Britton, 6 mm, testaceous |
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Heteronyx sp. 2 |
Key 15 Britton, 9 mm, dark castaneous |
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Heteronyx sp. nov. |
6.2 mm, black, pronotum & elytra glabrous |
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Heteronyx sp. nov |
Key 2 Britton, 6-7.5 mm, pale castaneous, bilobed labrum |
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Heteronxy sp. nr. crassus |
Key 1 of Britton 2000 |
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Heteronyx chlorotica |
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Heteronyx constans |
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Heteronyx ?cunnamullae |
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Heteronyx dimidiata |
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Heteronyx granulatus |
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Heteronyx piceus |
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Heteronyx praecox |
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Heteronyx simplicicollis |
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Liparetrus ferrugineus |
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Liparetrus vestituts |
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Phyllotocus bimaculatus |
Nectar scarab |
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Phyllotocus erythropterus |
Nectar scarab |
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Phyllotocus macleayi |
Nectar scarab |
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Phyllotocus marginipennis |
Nectar scarab |
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Phyllotocus navicularis |
Nectar scarab |
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Phyllotocus rufipennis |
Nectar scarab |
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Rhopaea decipiens |
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Rhopaea heterodactyla |
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Scitala sericans |
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Sericesthis parallela |
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Sericesthis geminata |
Pruinose scarab |
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Sericesthis micans |
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Sericesthis nemoralis |
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Sericesthis suturalis |
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Telura alta |
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Rutelinae |
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Anoplognathus montanus |
Christmas beetle |
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Anoplognathus porosus |
Christmas beetle |
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Anoplognathus hirsutus |
Christmas beetle |
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Repsimus aeneus |
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Scarabaeinae - Dung Beetles |
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*Euoniticellus africanus |
Greater sandy dung beetle |
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*Euoniticellus fulvus |
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*Onitis aygulus |
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Onthophagus australis |
Southern dung beetle |
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*Onthophagus binodis |
Hump-backed dung beetle |
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Onthophagus declivis |
dung beetle |
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Onthophagus frenchi |
dung beetle |
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Onthophagus granulatis |
dung beetle |
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*Onthophagus taurus |
Bull-headed dung beetle |
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Buprestidae - Jewel Beetles |
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Anilara sp. |
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Astraeus (Astraeus) jansoni |
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Castiarina australasiae |
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Castiarina sp. |
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Castiarina octospilota |
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Castiarina rufipennis |
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Castiarina sexplagiata |
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Cisseis sp. |
12 cream spots on elytra, cream marked pronotum |
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Cisseis luecosticta |
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Paracephala ?pistacina |
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Pseudanilara sp. |
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Selagis aurifera |
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Eucnemidae - False Click Beetles |
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'Arisus' sp. |
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Dromaeolus sp. |
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Echthrogaster sp. |
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Eurypticus sp. |
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Elateridae - Click Beetles |
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Agrypnus ?mamillatus |
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Anilicus xanthomus |
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Conoderus sp. 1 |
14.5 mm dark brown, yellowish legs |
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Conoderus sp. 2 |
7 mm, pale brown, yellowish legs |
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Conoderus sp. 3 |
7.5-8 mm, narrow, black |
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Conoderus sp. 4 |
10.5 mm, dark brown |
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Conoderus sp. 5 |
19 mm, very dark brown |
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Glypheus sp. |
13 mm, reddish black |
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?Melanoxanthus sp. |
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Paracardiophorus sp. |
4.5 mm, elytra yellow, edges & suture black |
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Paracardiophorus venustus |
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Pseudotetralobus ?australasiae |
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Lycidae - Net-winged Beetles |
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Porrostoma rhipidium |
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Trichalus sp. |
14 mm, orange & black |
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Cantharidae - Soldier Beetles |
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Chauliognathus lugubris |
Plague Soldier Beetle |
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Heteromastix sp. |
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Dermestidae - Hide Beetles |
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Anthrenocerus sp. |
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Dermestes frischii |
Hide beetle |
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Dermestes maculatus |
Common hide beetle |
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Trogoderma sp. 1 |
3 mm, elytra brown & black |
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Trogoderma sp. 2 |
2.5 mm, all dark brown |
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Bostrichidae |
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Lyctus costatus |
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Ptinidae - Borer Beetles |
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Dryophilodes sp. |
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Ptinus exulans |
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Trogossitidae - Cadelle Beetles |
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Lepidopteryx sp. |
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Cleridae, Chequered Beetles |
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Eleale pulchra |
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Eleale simplex |
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*Necrobia rufipes |
Red-legged ham beetle |
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Phlogistomorpha sp. |
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Phlogistus ?instabilis |
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Trogodendron fasiculatum |
Yellow-horned clerid |
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Acanthocnemidae |
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Acanthocnemis nigricans |
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Melyridae - Flower Beetles |
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Balanophorus sp. 1 |
8 mm, 3 exposed black, 2 orange abdominal tergites, head orange |
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Balanophorus sp. 2 |
7.5 mm, 4 black adbominal segments, head orange & black, antennal segments triangular |
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Carphurus sp. |
4 mm, elytra black with yellow shoulders |
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Dicranolaius sp. |
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Dicranolaius villosus |
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Helcogaster sp. |
3 mm, orange pronotum, bluish elytra |
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Nitidulidae - Sap Beetles |
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Nitidulinae sp. 1 |
c. 1 mm, labrum not emarginate, elytral punctures confused |
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Brachypeplus sp. 1 |
(large orange spot on basal half of elytra, pronotum dark & more quadrate than sp. 2 |
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Brachypeplus sp. 2 |
(pronotum fore edge more rounded, pronotum pale |
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Brachypeplus planus |
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Carpophilus sp. |
2.5 mm, orangey brown, distal quarter of elytra black |
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*Meligethes planiusculus |
Paterson's Curse flower beetle |
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*Omosita colon |
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Thalycrodes sp. |
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Laemophloeidae |
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Cryptolestes sp. 1 |
broad |
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Cryptolestes sp. 2 |
narrow |
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?Laemophloeus sp. |
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Placonotus sp. |
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Phalacridae - Bald Beetles |
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Phalacrus ?fimetarius |
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Phalacrus sp. |
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Cryptophagidae |
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'Cryptophagus' = Genus A |
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Cavognathidae |
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Taphropiestes pullivora |
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Erotylidae - Handsome Beetles |
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Thallis janthinus |
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Bothrideridae |
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Pseudobothrideres sp. |
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Coccinellidae - Ladybirds |
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Apolinus sp. |
2 mm, pronotum brown, elytra black |
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Cocinella transversalis |
Southern ladybird |
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Diomus notescens |
Minute two-spotted ladybird |
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Harmonia conformis |
Common spotted ladybird |
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*Hippodamia variegata |
White-collared ladybird |
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Orcus australasiae |
Orange-spotted ladybird |
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Rhizobius sp. |
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Serangium sp. |
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Stethorus vagans |
Mite-eating ladybird |
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Corylophidae - Hooded Beetles |
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'Alloparmulus' sp. |
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Orthoperus sp. |
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Latridiidae - Mildew Beetles |
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Cortinicara sp. |
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Mordellidae - Pintail Beetles |
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Mordella sp. 1 |
3 mm, all brown |
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Mordella sp. 2 |
4 mm, fore legs and mid femurs pale brown |
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Mordella sp. 3 |
3.5 mm, strong dark golden pubescence |
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Mordella sp. 4 |
4.5 mm, pale pubescence forming 6 elytral spots |
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Mordella sp. 5 |
7 white elytral spots, white band on hind edge of pronotum |
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Mordellistena sp. |
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Ripiphoridae - Antlered Beetles |
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'Evaniocera' sp. |
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Tenebrionidae - Darkling Beetles |
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Adelium sp. 1 |
elytral striae impressed punctate |
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Adelium sp. 2 |
elytral striae ridged |
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Adelium brevicorne |
Bronzed field beetle |
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Chalcopteroides sp. 1 |
11-14 mm impunctate line between eyes, mainly pink reflections |
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Chalcopteroides sp. 2 |
mainly green reflections, head more uniformly punctate |
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Cyphaleus metallescens |
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Ecnolagria sp. |
Honeybrown beetle |
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Homotrysis scutellatus |
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Lyphia sp. |
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Meneristes australis |
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Metistete sp. 1 |
19 x 7 mm |
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Metistete sp. 2 |
6.5 mm, black, brownish tarsi |
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Nocar depressiusculus |
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Palorus sp. |
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?Promethis nigra |
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Prophanes simplex |
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Pterohelaeus ?geminatus |
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Pterohelaeus ?piceus |
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?Strongylium sp. |
10 mm, black |
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Toxicum insigne |
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Toxicum sp. |
2 clypeal horns |
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Ulomoides tetraspilotus |
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Anthicidae - Ant Beetles |
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Anthicus sp. |
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Anthicus brevicollis |
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Cerambycidae - Longicorns |
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Cerambycinae |
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Bebius filiformis |
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Coptocereus rubripes |
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Distichocera sp. |
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Epithora dorsalis |
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Eroschema poweri |
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Obrida fascialis |
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Pachydissus sericus |
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Pachydissus sericus |
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Pempsamacra pygmaea |
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Phoracantha sp. nov. |
38mm |
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Phoracantha tricuspis |
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Phoracantha recurva |
Yellow longicorn |
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Phoracantha semipunctata |
Common eucalypt longicorn |
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Phoracantha synonyma |
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*Phytoecia coerulescens |
Paterson's Curse stem-boring beetle |
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Stenoderus suturalis |
Stinking longicorn |
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Strongylurus cretifer |
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Tessaromma undatum |
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Tropis lepturoides |
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Uracanthus pallens |
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Uracanthus triangularis |
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Lamiinae |
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Ancita australis |
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Disterna ovalis |
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Rhytiphora crucensis |
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Zygocera pruinosa |
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Prioninae |
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Eurynassa australis |
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Sceleocantha sp. |
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Chrysomelidae - Leaf Beetles |
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Cassidinae |
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Cassida sp. |
Tortoise beetle |
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Eurispa sp. |
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Chrysomelinae |
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Augomela hyphochalcea |
Hopbush leaf beetle |
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Chalcolampra sp. 1 |
dark blue black, orange pronotum with black spots |
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Chalcolampra sp. 2 |
6.5-7 mm, black, glossy, purplish/rosy/green reflections |
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*Chrysolina quadrigemina |
St John's Wort leaf beetle |
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Chrysophtharta agricola |
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Chrysophtharta sp. 2 |
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Chrysophtharta sp. 3 |
pale brown with silvery white markings |
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Chrysophtharta sp. 4 |
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Dicranosterna immaculata |
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Ethomela sp. |
6 mm, black above, brown below, legs yellowish brown |
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Paropsis sp. 1 |
brown with 3 large & numerous small raised ivory spots on elytra |
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Paropsis sp. 2 |
elytra bright orange with black marks |
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Paropsis sp. 3 |
10 mm, pinkish cream, pores brown |
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Paropsis atomaria |
Tortoise leaf beetle |
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Paropsis aegrota |
Eucalyptus tortoise beetle |
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Paropsis lutea |
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Paropsis variolosa |
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Paropsisterna beata |
Blessed leaf beetle |
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Paropsisterna intacta |
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Paropsisterna morio var. fallax |
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Paropsisterna nigerrima var. alternata |
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Paropsisterna nigerrima var. nigerimma |
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Peltoschema oceanica var. lachesis |
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?Rhaebosterna sp. |
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Trachymela sp. 1 |
large maculations on edges & centre of elytra |
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Trachymela sp. 2 |
4 black spots on pronotum, scattered black spots on elytra |
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Trachymela sp. 3 |
black-spotted on dark brown |
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Cryptocephalinae |
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Aporocera sens. str. sp. 1 |
3-4 mm, orange pronotum, black elytra with yellow stripe |
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Aporocera sens. str. sp. 2 |
7.5 mm, deep orange-brown, black underside & appendages |
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Aporocera sens. str. sp. 3 |
6.5 mm,pale orange, pronotum rugosely punctate, elytra with two black bands/spotted |
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Aporocera sens. str. sp. 4 |
brown elytra with c. 500 black spots on punctures |
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Aporocera sens. str. sp. 5 |
pale orange with large black elytral marks with blue reflections |
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Aporocera sens. str. sp. 6 |
strongly punctate, black, yellow and orange stripes |
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Aporocera sens. str. sp. 7 |
c. 2.7 mm, rather quadrate, glossy black |
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Aporocera parenthetica |
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Cadmus sens. str. sp. |
5.5 mm, pale brown, elytral striae with multiple black punctures, scutellum pale brown |
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Cadmus (Lachnabothra) sp. |
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Cadmus crucicollis |
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Cadmus litigiosus |
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Ditropidus sp. 1 |
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Ditropidus sp. 2 |
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Ditropidus sp. 3 |
3 mm, glossy dark-biscuit-brown above, dark below |
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Eumolpinae |
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Eboo sp. |
3 mm, bronzy green, legs reddish brown |
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Edusella sp. |
6-7 mm, metallic green, or elytra metallic orangey |
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Rhyparida sp. |
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Galerucinae |
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Arsipoda chrysis |
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Longitarsus sp. |
smaller than L. echii, with pale marks |
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*Longitarsus echii |
Paterson's Curse flea beetle |
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Monolepta sp. 1 |
3-4 mm, flavous, 3 reddish bands on elytra |
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Monolepta sp. 2 |
4 mm, orange pronotum, blue elytra |
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Monolepta ?dilutior |
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Monolepta ?fasciatipennis |
3 mm, black, orange elytral spot |
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Nisotra sp |
4 mm, orange head & prothorax, dark blue elytra |
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*Pyrrhalta luteola |
Elm leaf beetle |
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Anthribidae, Fungus Weevils |
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Choraginae nov. gen. |
deeply divided eyes, head very strongly deflexed, antenna with 6 distal segments nearly square, length c. 1.5 mm |
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Araecerus palmaris |
Driedapple beetle |
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Taburnus breviceps |
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Belidae - Belid Weevils |
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Isacanthodes ganglionica |
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Rhinotia bidentata |
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Rhinotia brunnea |
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Rhinotia edentula |
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Rhinotia filiformis |
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Rhinotia lineata |
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Rhinotia sparsa |
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Rhinotia tenuis |
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Attelabidae |
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Euops affinis |
Leafroller weevil |
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Curculionidae - Weevils |
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Curculionidae sp. 1 |
10 mm, dark grey, white oblique fascia on hind half elytron |
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Curculionidae sp. 2 |
Cyclominae? Rhythhirrinini? 6 mm, bulbous proboscis, two warts in front of eyes, blunt protuberances on elytra |
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Aethemagdalis instabilis |
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Chrysolopus spectabilis |
Botany Bay diamond weevil |
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Cubicorhynchus sp. |
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Cubicorhynchus maculatus |
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Decilaus sp. |
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Desiantha diversipes |
Spotted vegetable weevil, Maculate weevil |
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?Empolis leai |
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Ephrycus obliquus |
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Gonipterus scutellatus |
Eucalyptus weevil |
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Haplonyx sp. 1 |
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Haplonyx sp. 2 |
orange abdominal scales |
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Haplonyx sp. 3 |
4 mm, reddish brown, warty elytra |
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Haplonyx spencei |
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?Homeotrachelus sp. |
5 mm, chocolate brown scaled, short, broad, squarish rostrum |
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*Larinus latus |
Onopordum seedhead weevil |
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*Lixus cardui |
Onopordum stem-boring weevil |
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?Mandalotus (Bryodrassus) subhumeralis |
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?Mandalotus (Mandalotus) tibialis |
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Melanterius maculatus |
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*Mogulones larvatus |
Paterson's Curse crown weevil |
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*Naupactus leucoloma |
White-fringed weevil |
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?Olanea sp. |
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Orthorhinus cylindrirostris |
Elephant weevil |
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?Oxyops scabrosus |
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Phalidura subcostata |
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Rhinaria costata |
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*Rhinocyllus conicus |
Thistle receptacle weevil |
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Sclerorinus subcarinatus |
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Sclerorinus subcarinatus |
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Titinia laeta |
