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Family Buprestidae
- This page contains information and pictures about Jewel Beetles that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 12mm
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- In
Alexandra Hill during early summer, we found a lot of those orange-black Jewel
Beetle feeding on white flowers of tea tree Leptospermum. The patterns
on each beetle are slightly different. Their colours also vary from yellow to
orange.
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- When disturbed, they fly to another branch of tee tree near by.
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- Castiarina sexplagiata and Castiarina decemmaculata
feeding on Tea-tree flowers, Leptospermum sp., Family
Myrtaceae.
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- Reference:
- 1. Castiarina sexplagiata (Gory, 1841) - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2001.
- 2. Specimen
Image Index - Insect Reference Collection Database - ICDB,
Western Australian Department of Agriculture, 2006.
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