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- Adults Oedemerids feed on pollen and can be found on flowers and leaves.
They have elongated and parallel-sided slender body and usually with mouth parts
expanded. The antennae are long and in filiform. They are from small to
medium size.
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- Larvae are found in rotting wood. They feed on dead wood.
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- Lycid-mimicking Pollen Beetle
 - Pseudolycus sp., body length 15mm
- This beetle look like a Lycid
Beetle but it is in family Oedemeridae. This beetle mimic the Lycid
Beetle to gain some protections. Details please check our mimicry
complex page. For more images and information on this beetle please check
this page.
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- Black Pollen Beetle
 - Copidita sp., body length 12mm
- Pictures were taken in Yimbun Park along Bulimba Creek on Oct 2007. The
beetle was black in colour, elongated and parallel-sided slender body and with
mouth parts expanded. The antennae were long and in filiform. Please
check this page form more information.
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- Striped Pollen Beetle
 - Copidita sp., body length 12mm
- Pictures were taken in Karawatha Forest Dentata Track next to a small creek
on Nov 2007. Please check this page
for more information.
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- Reference:
- 1. A guide to the Genera of Beetles of South Australia Part.5 -
Matthews, E.G. 1987, p10, 38.
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