What bug is this?

[Cedars]

Originally Posted by Ganoderma

ya that was one of my guesses, but i am not so sure as to specie. some better shots of the head and underside (with legs) would be nice we have that specie, here, but i am not so sure about australia...i know very little about that countries insect life

that site is pretty vague on locations. i see a number of species we have here in taiwan but they only list japan or china for example. and vise versa. so i would not take those locations as definitive.

I think the link I posted was someones personal website guide.

We need more BugGuide or Butterflies and Moths type websites for different continents!

[Ganoderma]

that we most certainly do! i am working on one for out here in asia, but my beetle helpers are very busy, so its a very slow process. i am more of an arachnid person myself....and beetle taxonomy is rather messy. but i think the suggested genera here are fairly accurate for the pics eh? i think these groups are fairly well represented.