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- Beetles in this subfamily are some what flattened, some are metallic in
colour. They active during the day, most are seen feeding on flowers. Adults'
mouth-parts are modified for nectar feeding. They are active flyer, can
fly rapidly by spreading their wings without raising the elytra.
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- Larvae live in soil and feed on rotten wood or decaying plant
materials.
- Cowboy Beetle
 
- Diaphonia dorsalis, subfamily Cetoniinae, body length 25mm
- This beetle is commonly seen flying around very fast during day time in shrubs early
summer in Brisbane. It is yellowish-brown in colour with a black stripe on
the middle. Its body is relatively flatten. The beetle feeds on nectar.
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- Fiddle Beetle
  - Eupoecila australasiae,
subfamily Cetoniinae, body
length 18mm
- The beetle is dark brown in colour with violin-shaped bright
green pattern and this give its common name. The beetle was found feeding on
gum tree flower nectar on early summer.
- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife of Greater Brisbane
- Ryan, Michelle (ed.), Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 1995, p.91.
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- Brown Flower Beetle
- Glycyphana stolata, Subfamily Cetoniinae, body length 15mm
- This beetle is feeding on nectar in gum tree flowers. Above pictures were taken in October, late spring or early summer in
Brisbane. More information and pictures can be found in this page.
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- Mango Flower Beetle
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- Protaetia fusca, subfamily Cetoniinae, body length 11mm
- This beetle length
11mm, with some white dots on black wing covers. We found them on early summer.
For more information please click on here.
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- Spotted Flower Chafer
- Neorrhina punctatum (punctata), subfamily Cetoniinae, body length 20mm
- This beetle was once
called Polystigma punctatum. We took this picture when the beetle rest
on the Hibiscus leaf in our backyard in early summer. The beetle is pale brown
in colour with many large black dots on its thorax and wing covers. We
sometimes saw this beetle feeding on the gum tree flowers.
- Reference:
- 1. A
field guide to insects in Australia - By Paul Zborowski and Ross
Storey, Reed New Holland, 1996, p116.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 627.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p228.
- 3. Beetles of Australia - Trevor J Hawkeswood, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1987,
p31.
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