Largest Insects
Australia’s Largest Insects
Australia’s Largest Insect: 
Titan stick insect (Acrophylla titan) Ctenamorpha species of stick insect found in the wet tropics. An overall body length measuring up to 50 cms. |
| Australia’s Largest Butterfly:
Cairns Birdwing A wingspan of up to 18cms. Photo: © australian-insects.com |
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| Largest spider in Australia:
Whistling Spiders or Bird-eating Spiders (Selenocosmia crassipes) Up to 6cm in body length and a total length of 16cm (amonline, 2006). Photo: © Steve Nunn. |
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| Australia’s Heaviest Stick Insect:
Goliath stick insect (Eurycnema goliath) Smaller than the titan (stick insect), but weighing up to 30 grams. Photo: © australian-insects.com |
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| Australia’s Largest Cicada:
Double Drummer (Thopha saccata) The largest cicada in Australia with a wingspan up to 13cm. It is also the loudest insect in the world! Photo: © australianfauna.com |
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| Australia’s Largest Ant:
Bulldog ant (Myrmecia brevinoda) The largest ant (and probably the largest ant in the world) reaching 36mm in length. Photo: Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.5 |
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| Australia’s Largest Bee:
Carpenter bee (Xylocopa aruana) Wingspan up to 5cm. Photo: © Peter Chew |
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| Heaviest moth:
Giant wood moth (Endoxyla cinerea) Weighing up to 26 grams makes the Giant wood moth the heaviest moth in the World. Photo: Unrestricted use. |
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| Largest katydid:
Shield-backed katydid (Siliquofera sp.) Growing to 13cm, the largest in Australia and one of the largest in the world. |
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| Largest fly:
Robber fly (Phellus olgae) A wingspan of up to 8cm. Photo: © Peter Chew |
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| Australia’s Largest dragonfly:
Giant Petaltail (Petalura ingentissima) Photo: © Philip Bowles |
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| Largest lacewing:
Antlion lacewing (Heoclisis fulva) A wingspan up to 15cm. Photo: © Bill Horn |
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| Largest grasshopper:
Giant grasshopper (Valanga irregularis) Photo: © australian-insects.com |
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