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- Beetles in this family are usually narrowly elongated, slightly flattened,
metallic, black and reddish brown in colours. Their head is relatively large.
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- Larvae are not known but believed are stem-borers.
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- We found one species in this family.
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- Lizard Beetle

- Caenolanguria vulgaris, body
length 8mm
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- Photos were taken next to Bulimba Creek at Sunnybank on Nov 2007. The beetle
was running across leaves on short plants.
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- We found this small beetle many times along Bulimba Creek from Sunnybank to
Wishart during Nov to Jan.
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- Reference:
- 1. Lizard
Beetle - lifeunseen.com, by Nick Monaghan, 2008.
- 2. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 655, Fig.35.48B.
- 3. A guide to the Genera of Beetles of South Australia Part.6 -
Matthews, E.G. 1992, p11.
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