This 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 Order-level checklists of the species considered to be present in Tasmania.  Each species and higher taxon on this web-site will eventually have its own page and will be represented by at least one image, giving preference to specimens from the TMAG collections. Supplementary images, where available, show different viewpoints of preserved or live specimens, and are drawn from TMAG's image library or from the Atlas of Living Australia.

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 some of 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.