Cleobora mellyi

The sole Australian species in the genus.

Cleobora mellyi
Early December 2011
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart
IMG 0369  IMG 0370
Early January 2014
Black River
IMG 7099  IMG 7101
Late February 2014
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart
IMG 8363  IMG 8364  IMG 8365  IMG 8366
Early November 2016
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart
20161029 IMG 0544  20161029 IMG 0546  20161029 IMG 0547  20161029 IMG 0545
Early November 2016
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart

20161103 IMG 0566  20161103 IMG 0565  20161103 IMG 0567
Late December 2014
Hobart
IMG 0221  IMG 0223

Early October 2017
Narawntapu National Park
on Coastal Wattle (or Boobyalla) Acacia longifolia subsp sophorae
IMG 7289
Early October 2017
Narawntapu National Park
on Coastal Wattle (or Boobyalla) Acacia longifolia subsp sophorae
IMG 7291
Late November 2021
Inala, Bruny Island
IMG 1363
Late September 2022
Richmond
IMG 4569
Late September 2014
The Gardens, NE Tasmania
IMG 1666  IMG 1665
Mid November 2016
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart
20161110 IMG 0681  20161110 IMG 0683
Early October 2018
Mount Field National Park
IMG 5306  IMG 5305
Late November 2021
Inala, Bruny Island
IMG 1333

Eating Paropsisterna (leaf beetle) eggs
Late October 2013
Knocklofty Reserve, Hobart
IMG 5256  IMG 5254

Early January 2014
The Nut, Stanley
IMG 7285

Late September 2018
Bicheno
Foraging through the unopened flowers on a Melaleuca
IMG 5046  IMG 5047  IMG 5048

Port Sorell
Early March 2010
approaching a horned treehopper
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Cleobora mellyi  larva
Hobart
On Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon)
IMG 9303
Late November 2021
“Inala” Bruny Island
IMG 1421

Mid November 2016
Hobart
20161114 IMG 0733  20161114 IMG 0735
Mid November 2016
Hobart
IMG 5603 1  IMG 5599 1
Larva feeding on leaf beetle eggs
Mid January 2021
Hellyer Beach
IMG 7411

Emerging adult?
Mid December 2016
Hobart
20161216 IMG 1184  20161216 IMG 1185. 20161216 IMG 1186  20161216 IMG 1187

Late December 2022
nipaluna/Hobart

Freshly emerged from the pupal skin
IMG 5421  IMG 5424   IMG 5427
About 3 hours later
IMG 5429  IMG 5431  IMG 5432