Jewel Beetles
Buprestidae Leach, 1815
(after Hangay & Zborowski 2010): Body elongate, bullet-shaped, with a rigid body. Approximately 1.5-60mm in length. Distinctive colouration, often metallic, especially on the ventral surface. Head Hypognathous, antennae short and serrate, 11-segmented. Tarsal formula 5-5-5, with ventral membranous lobes on segments 1-4.
Publications
Hangay G, Zborowski P (2010): A Guide to the Beetles of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.
Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Biphyllidae
- Bostrichidae
- Buprestidae
- Carabidae
- Cerambycidae
- Chrysomelidae
- Cleridae
- Curculionidae
- Dytiscidae
- Elateridae
- Heteroceridae
- Hydrophilidae
- Leiodidae
- Limnichidae
- Mycetophagidae
- Nitidulidae
- Oedemeridae
- Rhipiphoridae
- Scarabaeidae
- Scraptiidae
- Silvanidae
- Staphylinidae
- Tenebrionidae
- Trogidae
- Zopheridae
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Gastropoda
- Insecta
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Entomobryomorpha (slender springtails)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Zygentoma (silverfish)
- Myriapoda