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- Most beetles in this family have body in wedge shape but do not have
prolonged abdominal apex as as Mordellidae.
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- Their larvae are parasitic on other insects, including cockroaches,
wood-boring beetles and wasps.
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Wedge-shaped Beetle
 
 - ? sp., male, body length 15mm
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- On the top of the Rocks Circuit in Karawatha Forest, we found a
Wedge-shaped Beetle. It was a male with antennae flabellate. This is the first
time (2006) we found a beetle in the Rhipiphoridae family.
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- The beetle was sitting on
the top of a small Acacia tree, with its antennae fingers fully opened, seems
waiting for something. We gauss it was waiting to receive the perfume signal
from a female.
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- We found this beetle again on Oct 2007 in Karawatha Forest Dentata Track.
It was also resting on leaf, wide open its antenna seem waiting for something.
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- Reference:
- 1. Rhipiphoridae - Insects of Townsville, Australia.
- 2. A guide to the Genera of Beetles of South Australia Part.5 -
Matthews, E.G. 1987, p4.
- 3. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 663.
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