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- 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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