0033: Sandy Cow Weevil
Gagatophorus draco
Hyden area, WA
0034: Mistletoe Birdpoo Weevil
Metyrus albicollis
Wagin, WA

Composite
0035: Oil Beetle
Curculionidae and Staphylinidae
Little Sandy Desert, WA
0033: Rove Beetle
Thyreocephalus chloropterus
Perth, WA

Composite image


  COLEOPTERA
(Weevils - Curculionidae, Oil beetle - Meloidae, Rove beetle - Staphylinidae)
 
 
Curculionidae is the largest Family of living creatures with some 60,000 known species.
As a Family they probably have the greatest collective impact on world land-based ecologies other than the sole Member of another Family – Hominidae (Us). Australia’s diverse Flora has an equally diverse popoulation controlling weevil fauna.



Many more species available in the collection