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

Created 21/09/2025

Updated 21/09/2025

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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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Field Value
Title "The Insects of Australia" full-colour plates 1 to 8
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/05ea033e-a0e9-56f5-b463-e0e785edfddc
Contact Point
CSIRO Data Access Portal
CSIROEnquiries@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/2000
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal CSIRO DAP

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO DAP ""The Insects of Australia" full-colour plates 1 to 8". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.csiro.au/collection/csiro:4761