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  • The Insect Orders
    • Orders A-M
      • Archaeognatha (Bristletails)
      • Blattodea (Cockroaches and Termites)
      • Coleoptera (Beetles)
      • Dermaptera (Earwigs)
      • Diptera (Flies)
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      • Hemiptera (Bugs, hoppers, scales & aphids)
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      • Megaloptera (Alderflies, Dobsonflies)
    • Orders N-Z
      • Neuroptera (Net-winged Insects)
      • Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies)
      • Orthoptera (Grasshoppers and Crickets)
      • Phasmida (Stick & Leaf Insects)
      • Phthiraptera (Lice)
      • Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
      • Psocoptera (Booklice & Psocids)
      • Strepsiptera (Strepsipterans)
      • Siphonaptera (Fleas)
      • Thysanoptera (Thrips)
      • Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
      • Zygentoma = Thysanura (Silverfish)
  • The Pseudo Insects
    • Class Entognatha (the Pseudo Insects; Diplura & Protura)
    • Class Collembola (Springtails)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Buprestoidea (including Jewel Beetles)
  Buprestidae-Castiarina_flavopicta        .       Buprestidae-Cisseis_sp  Buprestidae-Agrilus_australasiae

Superfamily Coccinelloidea (including ladybirds)
IMG 9625  IMG 6532  IMG 9149  IMG 8423  IMG 9508  IMG 5437 1  20160903 IMG 9472  20170227 IMG 2437  DSCF3960  IMG 3011  IMG 3351  IMG 5075 2

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

                    Buckland3Nov 045 ColeopX Passalid 2

Superfamily Scirtoidea (including Marsh Beetles)
    

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
IMG 7720  IMG 8099  DSCF6762  IMG 2693  IMG 8473  IMG 5873  IMG 2666  DSCF7947  IMG 4290  20161110 IMG 0697  IMG 7881  IMG 6514

Superfamily Hydrophiloidea
          

Superfamily Staphlinoidea (including Rove Beetles)

                    

Superfamily Bostrichoidea (including Carpet Beetles)
  Megatominae-Anthrenin-Anthrenus_sp-larvae  Anobium Anobiinae Anobiidae Australia      insectsoftasmaniacoleoptera/suborder-polyphaga/bostrichidae/Genus-Xylobosca

Superfamily Curculionoidea (Weevils)
  Brentidae Apioninae Apion                             

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (including Leaf and Longicorn Beetles) 
          IMG 5274  Cerambycidae larva

Superfamily Dascilloidea (Dascillids, including the feather and fan horned beetles)
  

Superfamily Byrrhoidea (Byrrhids, including Moss beetles and water pennies)
     

Superfamily Elateroidea (Including click, soldier and lycid beetles)
Cantharidae-Chauliognathus_lugubris    Cantharidae-larvae                  Lycidae Porrostoma rufipennis  

Superfamily Derodontoidea (Tooth necked fungus beetles)
(Currently empty)

Superfamily Lymexyloidea
(Currently empty)

Superfamily Cleroidea (including Clerid Beetles)
IMG 7476  20170207 IMG 1975  IMG 5145  IMG 1413  20170225 IMG 2371  IMG 5051  IMG 1401  IMG 6140 2  IMG 1871  IMG 6316  20160822 IMG 9242  20160807 IMG 9076

Superfamily Cucujoidea

IMG 6057  20161006 Episcaphula pictipennis AAA IMG 0724 2  IMG 0093  DSCF4571  IMG 1701  20170606 IMG 3709  IMG 0538  IMG 1643  IMG 9459

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The Field Guide to the Insects of Tasmania team acknowledges the palawa people; the traditional owners of lutruwita/ Tasmania. We respect their knowledge, connection and care of the land that we share and its ecosystems, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.  

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