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- This page contains information and pictures about Tree Trunk Tiger Beetles that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland,
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- Beetles in this family usually have a flat body. They have long legs and
running fast. Most of them are predators with prominent mandibles and palps,
They hunt for small insects either on ground or on tree trunks. Some of them
are flightless. Most are active at night. Most produce defensive
secretions.
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- Most of their larvae are also predators, some
hunting on leaves, others burrowing in soil or rotting wood. They feed on
eggs, larvae and pupa of other insects. Some other Carabid larvae are
scavengers.
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The beetles in subfamily
Cicindelinae are also known as Tiger
Beetles.
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- Tree Trunk Tiger Beetle I
 
- Distipsidera undulata,
Cicindelinae, body length
20mm
- The beetle was grayish-black in
colour with white zigzag line across the back. The
beetle ran fast on tree trunk. It has long legs, large eyes and large jaws for
predation. It chases after small insects on gum tree trunk. Please check this page
for more information.
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- Tree Trunk Tiger Beetle II
 
- Distipsidera flavicans, Cicindelinae, body length 15mm
- This
ground beetle looks very similar to the above species. This beetle is
smaller and in paler colours. This species is rarely seen. Please check this page
for more infromation.
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- Longicorn Ground Beetle
 
- Demetrida longicollis, Lebiinae, body length 25mm
- This
ground beetle has the body shape looks like a Longicorn Beetle. Its body also
flattened with Cockroach
style legs which are the adoption of living under barks. Please check this page
for more information.
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- Black Ground Beetle
 - ? Catadromus sp.,
Pterostichinae, body length 20mm
- This Black Ground Beetle is shiny black in
colour. The beetle was found hunting on the ground. It was running fast and
hide among fallen leaves on forest floor. Please check this page
for more information.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 613.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p192 and Plate 17.
- 3. CARABIDAE - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2002.
- 4. A guide to the Genera of Beetles of South Australia Part.1 -
Matthews, E.G., 1980, p7.
- 5. Taxonomic Revision of the Australian Cicindelidae (Coleoptera), excluding Species of Cicindela
- Ruth Frances McCairns, Richard Freitag, H. A. Rose and F. J. D.
McDonald, Invertebrate Taxonomy 11(4) 599 - 688, 1997.
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