Soft-Winged Flower Beetle
Dicranolaius
FP-13839
Discoverer: F. Bokhari (2025)
Fauna Portal species: 13839
Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
Family: Melyridae
Diagnosis
A red beetle with a blue head and 4 blue spots on the elytra, in the anterolateral and posterolateral corners. Body and legs covered in long, dark, erect setae.
Status
- native
Fauna Portal Reference
unknown
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Harry Butler Institute
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N35429-7
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17/02/25
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Australia
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Western Australia
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Barrow Island, Shark Point
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window trap
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Farhan Bokhari, 17 March 2026
Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Anthicidae
- Biphyllidae
- Bostrichidae
- Buprestidae
- Carabidae
- Cerambycidae
- Chrysomelidae
- Cleridae
- Curculionidae
- Dytiscidae
- Elateridae
- Heteroceridae
- Hydrophilidae
- Leiodidae
- Limnichidae
- Melyridae
- Mycetophagidae
- Myraboliidae
- Nitidulidae
- Oedemeridae
- Rhipiphoridae
- Scarabaeidae
- Scraptiidae
- Silvanidae
- Staphylinidae
- Tenebrionidae
- Trogidae
- Zopheridae
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Insecta
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Mantodea (Praying Mantises)
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Myriapoda
