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Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)

Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)

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Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)

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KimberiRP wrote:
17 Aug 2025
No, not Cleridae. Working on it.
Unverified Darkling beetle (Tenebrionidae)
MichaelMulvaney wrote:
17 Aug 2025
What about one of teh checkered beetles?
Unverified Darkling beetle (Tenebrionidae)
MarkH wrote:
11 Aug 2025
This is a tenebrionid beetle, I’m pretty sure in the genus Chalcopteroides.
Not my area of expertise however definitely not a buprestid.
Chalcopteroides sp. (genus)
KimberiRP wrote:
9 Aug 2025
Never seen so many together!
Adelium porcatum
KimberiRP wrote:
9 Aug 2025
Larva of a Darkling beetle (family Tenebrionidae) of tribe Lagriini.
Tenebrionidae (family)

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Pterohelaeus striatopunctatus

Pterohelaeus striatopunctatus at Higgins, ACT

Tenebrionidae (family)

Meneristes australis

Pterohelaeus piceus

Chalcopteroides columbinus at Wanniassa, ACT

Chalcopteroides sp. (genus) at Wanniassa, ACT

Pterohelaeus (genus) at Wanniassa, ACT

Chalcopteroides sp. (genus) at Wanniassa, ACT

Chalcopteroides columbinus at Wanniassa, ACT

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