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FAMILY LYCIDAE
- This page contains information and pictures about Long-nose Lycid Beetle that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 20mm
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- Lycid beetles feed on nectar. The bright orange and black colours are a
warning to predators that it is highly toxic and distasteful. Many other
insects including flies, wasps and other
beetles, mimic its colours. Some of these are also
toxic, but some are not and gain the same benefit by fraud. This could be the
second most popular visual warning signal (Lycid
Beetle mimicry rings) in the insects world, next to the
yellow and black strips of wasps and
bees.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 638.
- 2. Beetles
of Australia - Trevor J Hawkeswood, Angus & Robertson
Publishers, 1987, plate 106.
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