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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A marbled brown and grey grasshopper on a grey sandy track

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Variable Cirphula

Cirphula pyrrhocnemis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Ephutomorpha subcristata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Orthorhinus klugii

An orangish coloured spider with a white spotted triangular abdomen on a leaf

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Walckenaer's Studded Triangular Spider

Arkys walckenaeri

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Phyllotocus rufipennis

A wasp like beetle brown in colour on a blade of grass

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Wasp mimic longicorn beetle

Enchoptera apicalis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Sclerorinus bubalus

A small blackish grey weevil on a leaf

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Prosayleus hopei

A small white moth on a plant stem

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

White Rush Moth

Tipanaea patulella

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Wingless Grasshopper

Phaulacridium vittatum

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Cercophonius squama

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

A brownish month on a dry stem of grass

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Yellow-headed Heath Moth

Antasia flavicapitata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Yellow-Winged Locust

Gastrimargus musicus

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Hermit crab in a shell underwater

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

A small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach

A sea-slug on a rock underwater

Macleay’s sea-slug (Baeolidia macleayi)

Macleay’s sea-slug (Baeolidia macleayi)<br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/baeolidia-macleayi