"The Insects of Australia" full-colour plates 1 to 8

This collection is comprised of high-resolution scans from the eight full-colour plates in the CSIRO publication "The Insects of Australia - a textbook for students and research workers, Volumes I and II, 2nd Edition". Plate 1: Odonata (dragonflies) Plate 2: Mantodea (mantids), Blattodea (cockroaches), Dermaptera (earwigs), Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets and katydids). Plate 3: Hemiptera (bugs) Plate 4: Coleoptera (beetles) Plate 5: Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (flies), Hymenoptera (bees, ants and wasps). Plate 6: Batesian Mimicry. Plate 7: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) Plate 8: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) A ninth plate, depicting termite heads, has been included in this collection but was not published in the final volumes.

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Published (Metadata Record) 02/03/2026
Last updated 03/03/2026
Organisation Australian Federal Government
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