Switch off the lights or otherwise darken the room, then fire away. Images of ten beautiful species of live Australian Buprestidae are grouped, with comments, in three pages to reduce your download time should you suddenly need to go elsewhere. Pages of even more images will be added later. There are also some other species illustrated in Bupresting Around Sydney!. Note that any image of a buprestid in this web site that occurs around Sydney can be reached from its listing in the large file Checklist: Buprestidae of the Sydney Region, which can take a while to download.

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Part 3

Be aware that this large 240kb or so document takes quite a while to download especially if you have a 33.6 or slower connection. So don't click here unless you really need this. It provides a comprehensive up-to-date checklist of all 221 species of jewel beetles, in 35 genera, so far known to occur within the Sydney Region (as defined by the Sydney drainage basins), complete with district occurences and hyperlinks of some species to a photo. The checklist has heaps of relative hyperlinks to ease navigation from subfamily to subfamily, tribe to tribe, etc.