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 Pintail Beetle  Hoshihananomia leucosticta, (Mordella leucosticta), body length 10mmPhotos taken in Karawatha forest during mid summer. We saw this beetle
  only once. It was not quite moving even we touch it.    
 Reference:   1. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J.
  Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p225.2. Insects
  of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
  Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 663.3. Hoshihananomia leucosticta - Insects of Townsville, Australia 
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