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FAMILY LYCIDAE
- This page contains information and pictures about Red Shoulder Lycid Beetle that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 20mm
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- Trichalus ampliatus, body length 20mm
- This beetle look similar to the above species except both sides of the head
is brick-red colour. The second picture shows two Lycid beetles get caught on a plant stem. The
plant has hook hairs on stem and leave which will attach even on our skin or
clothes. Once insects land on them, are trapped.
  - We found the above mating Lycid Beetles on a gum leaf in Mt Cotton early
summer. Two hours later, they are still mating on the gum leaf, no fear of
predators. Lycid beetles are avoided by most predators for their highly toxic
and distasteful.
  - This Lycid Beetle is common in Brisbane bush.
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- Reference:
- 1. Beetles
of Australia - Trevor J Hawkeswood, Angus & Robertson
Publishers, 1987, plate 107.
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