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Australian Insects

Death Watch Beetles [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Anobiidae]
The Common Furniture Beetle is an introduced pest to Australia. The adult beetles are brown with yellowish hairs, and reddish-brown legs. The first segment of the thorax forms a hood which hides the...
Common Furniture Beetle
(Anobium punctatum) 		The Pine Bark Anobiid is an oval shaped beetle with short golden hairs giving it a reddish brown colour. The body darkens with age as the pale hairs are gradually worn away. The body is fairly smooth...
Pine Bark Anobiid
(Ernobius mollis) 		The adult Cigarette Beetle is a small reddish brown beetle with a rounded, oval shape. The wing covers are covered with fine hair. The head is hidden by the pronotum when the beetle is seen from...
Cigarette Beetle
(Lasioderma serricorne) 		The Golden Spider Beetle is brown and covered with golden yellow hair. The body shape resembles a spider with rounded abdomen, narrow thorax and rounded head. It has long thin legs and long segmented...
Golden Spider Beetle
(Niptus hololeucus)
The Drugstore Beetle is a member of the same family as the Common Furniture Beetle and the Cigarette Beetle. It is a reddish brown beetle with rows of pits in fine lines along the wing covers. The...
Drugstore Beetle
(Stegobium paniceum)

Fungus Weevils [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Anthribidae]
The Coffee Bean Weevil is a small dome shaped beetle that is a pest of stored food products. The beetle is mottled dark brown and lighter brown patches. It has long legs, and long antennae with three...
Coffee Bean Weevil
(Araecerus fasciculatus)

Belid Weevils [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Belidae]

Long Nosed Weevil
(Rhinotia hemistictus)

False Powderpost Beetles [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Bostrichidae]
The Powderpost beetle is a dark brown or reddish brown shiny beetle, with the thorax usually appearing darker than the elytra. The body is flattened and elongated. The antennae are about the same...
Powderpost beetle
(Lyctus brunneus) 		The Lesser Grain Borer is a small black or dark brown beetle. The body is slender and cylindrical. The head is hidden under the prothorax which is finely textured with bumps and dimples. The elytra...
Lesser Grain Borer
(Rhyzopertha dominica)

Jewel Beetles [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Buprestidae]
The Painted Jewel Beetle is an exotic introduced pest. The body is brown and shiny, with four yellow spots on each of the elytra (hardened front wings). The first spot is the smallest and the third...
Painted Jewel Beetle
(Buprestis novemmaculata) 		Temognatha attenuata is a striking jewel beetle with bright yellow and red bands on the greenish blue wing covers. The head and thorax are dark blue green. The wing covers are lined with rows of fine...
Jewel Beetle
(Temognatha alternata)

Soldier Beetles [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Cantharidae]
Soldier Beetles are similar in appearance to Lycid Beetles and have a soft flattened body. They are usually coloured in combinations of black, brown and yellow. Some species have a black and yellow...
Soldier Beetle
(Cantharidae family )

Ground Beetles [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Carabidae]
The Green Carab Beetle is a metallic green colour with fine parallel ridges running along the wing covers. When handled it gives off an unpleasant scent. It is a night flying beetle and is attracted...
Green Carab Beetle
(Calosoma schayeri) 		This beetle has a reddish brown body with black round the edges of the wing covers and down centre of back. The body has fine ridges runnning along the length of the wing covers. It has distinct...
Ground Beetle
(Drypta sp) 		The Bombardier Beetle is a black and brown ground beetle belonging to the Carabidae family. The wing covers are mostly black, each having a large brown patch in the middle. When threatened, it can...
Bombardier Beetle
(Pheropsophus verticalis)

Longicorn Beetles [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Cerambycidae]
Longicorn Beetles are large beetles with extremely long antenna that come from the edges of their eyes. The have large compound eyes with notches where the antenna emerge, and strong mandibles for...
Longicorn Beetle
(Cerambycidae family ) 		Coptocercus rubripes is a longicorn (longhorn) beetle with elongated brown body. The wing covers have long angular yellowish markings and a small spine at the end of each wing cover. The antennae...
Round-headed Wood Borer
(Coptocercus rubripes) 		The European House Borer is a pest species of longicorn (longhorn) beetle from Europe. It is a dark grey beetle with two pair of light grey horizontal bands on the elytra. The thorax is hairy with...
European House Borer
(Hylotrupes bajulus) 		The Eucalyptus Long-horned Borer is mainly dark reddish brown. There is a yellowish brown area in middle of the elytra, and a yellowish brown patch near the tip. There is a zigzag line bisecting the...
Eucalyptus Long-horned Borer
(Phoracantha semipunctata)

Longicorn Beetle
(Zygocera plumifera)

Leaf Beetles [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Chrysomelidae]
The Bean Weevil is an exotic pest species that is established in Australia. It is an oval grey brown beetle, covered with short hairs. The wing cases are short and do not quite reach the tip of the...
Bean Weevil
(Acanthoscelides obtectus) 		The Pea Weevil is a small reddish brown beetle with dark markings. The body is tear drop shaped and broader at the base, with two large black spots on the rear end. Pea Weevils do not have the...
Pea Weevil
(Bruchus pisorum) 		The Cowpea Weevil is an exotic pest species. The beetle is brown and scaly and rounded in shape, with long legs and antennae. The elytra (hardened front wings) are patterned with light and dark...
Cowpea Weevil
(Callosobruchus phaseoli) 		Not sure what species of Leaf Beetle this is. The head is a buff colour, and the body is patterned in shades of cream, buff and brown. It has a domed shape like a ladybird, and the surface has a...
Leaf Beetle
(Chrysomelidae family sp1)
Leaf Beetles - unknown species. The male is black and the female is metallic blue. It could be a species of Lilioceris, but not sure. Let me know if you recognise the species.
Leaf Beetle
(Chrysomelidae family sp2) 		This leaf beetle is yellow with orange head and small metallic forewings that cover only the top part of the abdomen.
Leaf Beetle
(Cryptocephalus sp) 		The Lily Leaf Beetle has reddish brown wing covers, and a dull brown head and abdomen. The legs and antennae are black.
Lily Leaf Beetle
(Lilioceris nigripes) 		Gum Leaf Beetles feed on the leaves of Eucalyptus trees. They are brown with yellow markings and a similar domed shape to ladybirds.
Gum Leaf Beetle
(Paropsis sp)
At first glance, this Leaf Beetle could be mistaken for a large elongated ladybird, but up close it looks nothing like a ladybird apart from the colour. It is orange red with bold black spots - one...
Leaf Beetle
(Phyllocharis sp) 		The Fig Tree Leaf Beetle has brown wing covers and a yellowish brown head and thorax. There is a black spot on the thorax and at the base of the wing covers
Fig Tree Leaf Beetle
(Poneridia semipullata) 		The Lantana Leafminer is a small shiny brown beetle. The wing covers are rectangular and have corrugations along the length. It has several golden brown spots on the wing covers, and golden coloured...
Lantana Leafminer
(Uroplata girardi) 		The Elm Leaf Beetle is a yellowish beetle with a black stripe along their elytra (protective wing covers) and three or four distinctive black spots on the thorax. The larvae are all black or black...
Elm Leaf Beetle
(Xanthogaleruca luteola)

Clerid Beetles [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Cleridae]
Clerid beetles are elongate, hairy beetles with large often bulging eyes, strong biting mandibles and clubbed antennae. They are often metallic or have bright contrasting colour patterns. Some...
Clerid beetle
(Eleale lepida) 		Eunatalis porcata is a dark brown or black clerid beetle. The wing covers have rows of small squarish pits along the length of the body. The body is covered in fne short hairs, with reddish brown...
Clerid Beetle
(Eunatalis porcata) 		The Blacklegged Ham Beetle is dark blue black, with black legs and antennae. It is similar to the Red-legged Ham Beetle (Necrobia rufipes), which can be distinguished by its reddish legs and...
Blacklegged Ham Beetle
(Necrobia violacea) 		The Red-legged Ham Beetle is a shiny metallic blue green beetle. The antennae are reddish brown with dark brown or black club at tip. The legs are reddish brown or orange. The elytra are covered with...
Red-legged Ham Beetle
(Necrobia rufipes)
The Yellow-horned Clerid is a small black beetle in the cleridae family. It has yellow antennae broadening towards the tips. The wing covers have small bumps at the
Yellow-horned Clerid
(Trogodendron fasciculatum)

Ladybirds [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Coccinellidae]
The Yellow Shouldered Ladybird is a small black beetle with a yellow patch on each side of the thorax. Some also have yellow on the head. The wings are covered with fine hairs. The pupae are oval...
Yellow Shouldered Ladybird
(Apolinus lividigaster) 		The Transverse ladybirds is bright orange-red in colour with black markings on their back. There is a dark strip down the centre where the wings meet, and prominent V-shaped markings on each side....
Transverse Ladybird
(Coccinella transversalis) 		The Variable Ladybird is a small beetle with four spots on each wing. They are orange or orange-yellow. Usually the spots are quite large blotches, but sometimes the spots are quite small. They are...
Variable Ladybird
(Coelophora inaequalis 1) 		Yet another colour and pattern variation of the Variable Ladybird. This ladybird is orange with three black stripes along the length of the body - one down each wing cover and one down the centre...
Variable Ladybird narrow striped form
(Coelophora inaequalis 3)
Variable Ladybirds usually have four wing spots, but some forms have two black bars on the wings. They also have a black stripe along back where wing covers meet.
Variable Ladybird striped form
(Coelophora inaequalis 2) 		The adults are greenish black with reddish brown head and thorax, and the rear end of the abdomen is also reddish brown. The body is covered in short fine hairs. The larvae are white and resemble the...
Mealybug Ladybird
(Cryptolaemus montrouzieri) 		The Steelblue Ladybird is a small hemisphere shaped ladybird. It is dark metallic blue in colour. This ladybird is an important predator of pests in citrus plantations in Australia, and was...
Steelblue Ladybird
(Halmus chalybeus) 		The Common Spotted Ladybird is a medium sized orange ladybird. It has 23 large black spots on the wing covers. The larvae is black when they hatch and go through four stages of development (instars)...
Common Spotted Ladybird
(Harmonia conformis)
The Tortoise-shelled Ladybird is an average sized yellow ladybird with stripes along and across the body in a net pattern. It has two black stripes running from the eyes to the wing covers. The...
Tortoise-shelled Ladybird
(Harmonia testudinaria) 		Most ladybirds are beneficial to the garden, but Twenty Eight Spot Ladybirds can be leaf eating pests. They are orange with 13 black spots on each wing cover. ( That only makes 26 spots - so where...
Twenty Eight Spot Ladybird
(Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata) 		The Fungus-eating Ladybird is bright yellow with black markings. It is active during the day and fast moving. It drops to the ground or takes flight readily when disturbed. The larvae are creamy...
Fungus-eating Ladybird
(Illeis galbula) 		Striped Ladybirds are medium sized orange ladybirds with three black stripes on their back. They can be found on tall grasses and weeds. The larva are dull brown with white spots, and black head and...
Striped Ladybird
(Micraspis frenata)

True Weevils [Order: Coleoptera, Family: Curculionidae]
The Botany Bay Weevil was first collected at Botany Bay during Cook's voyage of discovery in 1770 and was the first Australian insect to be scientifically described. The weevil is black with a...
Botany Bay Weevil
(Chrysolopus spectabilis)




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