Species Guide — Bug Life

Bug
Life

The bugs and insects that can be found around Tasmania

Bug Life

126 species documented

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Long green grasshopper Psednura pedestris on a blade of grass

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Common Psednura

Psednura pedestris

Red Australian Map shape with the word introduced over it

Common Rough Woodlouse

Porcellio scaber

A brightly coloured month on a leaf

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Concealer Moth Sp.

Wingia hesperidella

A fawn coloured moth upside down on a grass seed

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Couchgrass Webworm

Faveria tritalis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Mictis profana

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Darkling Beetle

Lepispilus sulcicollis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Eristalis tenax

A small black and blue damselfly on dry grass stalk

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Eastern Billabongfly

Austroagrion watsoni

Red Australian Map shape with the word introduced over it

Eleven-spotted Ladybird

Coccinella undecimpunctata

Brown Amorbus obscuricornis bug on some leaves

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Eucalyptus Tip-wilter Bug

Amorbus obscuricornis

Red Australian Map shape with the word introduced over it

European Honey Bee

Apis mellifera

Red Australian Map shape with the word introduced over it

Vespula germanica

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Neolucia agricola

Red Australian Map shape with the word introduced over it

Fuller's Rose Weevil

Naupactus cervinus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Garden Soldier Fly

Exaireta spinigera

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Heliothela ophideresana

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A small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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A marine flatworm on a rock underwater

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii)

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii) <br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/thysanozoon-brocchii

Hermit crab in a shell underwater

A small hermit crab species this guy is under 10mm in size

Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach