Pinhole Borer Beetles - Subfamily: Platypodinae
Tribe: Platypodini
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Horizontal Borer - Austroplatypus incompertus
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Crossotarsus armipennis
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Common Ambrosia Beetle - Euplatypus parallelus (likely occurrence)
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Large Ambrosia Beetle - Platypus froggatti
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Omnivorous Pinhole Borer - Platypus omnivorus
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Platypus semigranosus
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Polyphagous Pinhole Borer - Treptoplatypus crenatus
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Tribe: Tesserocerini
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Notoplatypus elongatus
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Taxonomy:
Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
> Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
> Class: Insecta (Insects)
> Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and Once-winged Insects)
> Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
> Suborder: Polyphaga (Water, Rove< Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
> Infraorder: Cucujiformia (Cucujiform Beetles)
> Superfamily: Curculionoidea (Snout and Bark Beetles)
> Family: Curculionidae (True Weevils)
> Subfamily: Platypodinae
> Tribe: Platypodini
> Genus: Austroplatypus
> Species: A. incompertus - Horizontal Borer
> Genus: Crossotarsus
> Species: C. armipennis
> Genus: Euplatypus
> Species: E. parallelus - Common Ambrosia Beetle *
> Genus: Platypus
> Species: P. froggatti - Large Ambrosia Beetle
> Species: P. omnivorus - Omnivorous Pinhole Borer
> Species: P. semigranosus
> Genus: Treptoplatypus
> Species: T. crenatus - Polyphagous Pinhole Borer
> Tribe: Tesserocerini
> Genus: Notoplatypus
> Species: N. elongatus
^ = possibly
* = likely
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