This web-site is brought to you by the Invertebrate Zoology team at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG). Our aim is for the site to eventually serve as a comprehensive online checklist of Tasmania’s insect fauna. Insect Orders will be rolled out one by one, as we compile updated Order-level checklists of the species considered to be present in Tasmania.  Each species on this web-site will eventually have its own page and will be represented by at least one image, preferably of a specimen from the TMAG collections. Supplementary images, where available, will show different viewpoints of preserved or live specimens, and a map showing the distribution of TMAG specimen-based records.

We’ve started with the Coleoptera (beetles), partly because this is the most species-rich Order in the State (over 2,800 species) and partly because it has enabled us to capture the content of the now-defunct Tasmanian Forest Insects Collection web-site, which covered forest beetles only. 

This web-site is intended to complement, rather than compete with, the wonderful Insects of Tasmania web-site maintained by Kristi Ellingsen and Tony Daly.  The main point of difference is that this site is focused on the idea of a comprehensive listing, and on utilising museum specimens as the primary source of information and images.  It is also part of a ‘stable’ of envisaged web-sites on the Tasmanian invertebrate fauna, alongside one that we have already rolled out on Tasmania’s marine molluscs: molluscsoftasmania.org.au