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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Discussion

AlisonMilton wrote:

10 Sep 2025

Thanks Mark

Melobasis sp. (genus)

MarkH wrote:

10 Sep 2025

This is possibly Melobasis naias rather than M. obscurella which is what this early acacia flower inhabiting species is normally identified as. The size is quite small and the golden colour is very much like M. naias.
I would suggest that any of the golden green specimens may be M. naias while all of the M. obscurella I have seen before are more blue-green. Their overall size is fairly similar as are the other external characters.
It would be worth someone checking ANIC for identified specimens of both species to ensure that all NatureMapr specimens are correctly identified as M. obscurella rather than being M. naias.

Melobasis sp. (genus)

AlisonMilton wrote:

9 Sep 2025

@HelenCross Surpised to find them in suburbia on Belconnen Way

Melobasis obscurella

HelenCross wrote:

9 Sep 2025

Looks like this is the first record for this season!

Melobasis obscurella

WendyEM wrote:

7 Sep 2025

This one is Chloroclystis sp. It is not as dumpy and spiky as the beetle larvae. In the 2nd shot the caterpillar is hanging on with its anal claspers which the beetle larvae don't have. The leaf beetles ( Sighting 4691748 ) were by-catch or co-habitants on the food plant

Peltoschema hamadryas