About the Authors

Carl W. Wardhaugh

carl.wardhaugh@my.jcu.edu.au

Affiliation School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Smithfield, Queensland, Australia

Nigel E. Stork

Affiliation Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia

Will Edwards

Affiliation School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Smithfield, Queensland, Australia

Peter S. Grimbacher

Affiliation Department of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne, Richmond, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CWW NES WE. Performed the experiments: CWW NES PSG. Analyzed the data: CWW WE. Wrote the paper: CWW NES WE PSG. Morphospecies assignment and verification of beetles: CWW NES PSG.