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Ground Beetles

STAPHYLINIDAE
Rove Beetles 

SCARABAEIDAE
Scarab Beetles

BUPRESTIDAE
Jewel Beetles
ELATERIDAE
Click Beetles 
LYCIDAE
Long-noseLycidBeetle
Red ShoulderLycid Beetle
CANTHARIDAE
Soldier Beetles

CLERIDAE
Clerid Beetles
MELYRIDAE
Pollen Beetles
NITIDULIDAE
Sap Beetles

COCCINELLIDAE 
Ladybird Beetles 

MORDELLIDAE
Pintail Beetles
RHIPIPHORIDAE
Wedge-shaped Beetles TENEBRIONIDAE
Chalcopterus Beetle
Brown Darkling Beetle
Black Darkling Beetle 

CERAMBYCIDAE
Longicorn Beetles
CHRYSOMELIDAE 
Leaf Beetles  

BELIDAE
Belid Weevils
CURCULIONIDAE
True Weevil

Other Beetle Families 

                                               

Family Mordellidae - Pintail Beetles

 
Pintail Beetle
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Hoshihananomia leucosticta, (Mordella leucosticta), body length 10mm
Photos taken in Karawatha forest during mid summer. We saw this beetle only once. It was not quite moving even we touch it. 
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Reference:  
1. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p225.
2. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 663.
3. Hoshihananomia leucosticta - Insects of Townsville, Australia 

 
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