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Riddells Creek - Beetles
(click on the name or the picture for a larger/better picture)

New Beetles Added June 2007

Common Name

Scientific Name (Family)

Longicorn (Longhorn) Beetle

Syllitus rectus
(Cerambycidae)

Poropterus Weevil

Poropterus species
(Curculionidae)

Melyrid Beetle

Dicranolaius species
(Melyridae)

Chafer Beetle

Phyllotocus species
(Scarabaeidae)

Chafer Beetle

Telura species
(Scarabaeidae)

Darkling Beetle

Adelium species
(Tenebrionidae)

Darkling Beetle

Ecnolagria refescens - probably
(Tenebrionidae, tribe Lagriini)

*Stem-boring Weevil

Listronotus setosipennis
(Curculionidae)

Significant species - let us know if you see it. Click on picture to find out more.

*White-fringed Weevil

Naupactus leucoloma
(Curculionidae)

* Not indigenous to Australia before European settlement.

Beetles (including Weevils) are insects that make up the Order Coleoptera. There are over 28,000
Beetle species in Australia (many more than plant species) making it extremely difficult to accurately
ID them even down to family level. There are estimated to be 8,000 Weevils in Australia alone!

A good general book about insects, covering Beetles, is "A Field Guide to Insects in Australia" by Paul
Zborowski & Ross Storey. Though very technical, a good book about Beetles is: "Australian Beetles" by
John Lawrence.

More about Insects & other Invertebrate classes.

We'd like to acknowledge Kimberi Pullen and Wendy Moore for their help in
identifying the beetles on this page.

If you've seen a Beetle in Riddells Creek that isn't on this list please let us know
... we'd love to add it to our list.

All photos are taken in Riddells Creek. If you have photos taken in Riddells Creek
and would like to submit them, send them to Russell & Gill Best.

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