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Beetles (Coleoptera)

Beetles (Coleoptera)

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Beetles (Coleoptera)

Click beetles (Elateridae)
Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)
Carab beetles (Carabidae)
Jewel beetles (Buprestidae)
Lady beetles (Coccinellidae)
Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)
Longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae)
Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae)
Stag beetles (Lucanidae)
Water beetles (several families)
Weevils (Curculionoidea)
Other beetles
Checkered Beetles (Cleridae)
Rove beetles (Staphylinidae)

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KimberiRP wrote:
9 Aug 2025
Never seen so many together!
Adelium porcatum
KimberiRP wrote:
9 Aug 2025
Never seen so many together!
Adelium porcatum
KimberiRP wrote:
9 Aug 2025
Possibly Ptinidae, but unable to confirm without more detailed images (or a specimen).
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KimberiRP wrote:
9 Aug 2025
This is one of several species in the "Gonipterus scutellatus complex" which are difficult to distinguish by eye. Such taxa are known as "cryptic" species.
see: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-6055.2011.00853.x
Gonipterus sp. (genus)
KorinneM wrote:
6 Aug 2025
Thanks again for the info, @MarkH.
Castiarina xystra

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