Ladybird beetle at Tarraganda, NSW
Identification history
| Orcus bilunulatus | 8 Aug 2019 | DavidL.Jones |
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User's notes
Adults about 6mm long shiny bluish black with a single orange spot on one wing cover. Feeds on small soft-bodied insects. These beetles were found on Casuarina cunninghamiana. Identity confirmed by Dr Adam Slipinski.
1 comment
JackieMiles
wrote:
19 Aug 2019
Hi David, Good timing as another sighting of this species came up in the bioblitz, so it was good to have your ID to hand to sort that one out too.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.858728-36.671362
- Maps Bega River Bioblitz
- Places Tarraganda, NSW
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 29 Dec 2012 05:13 PM Recorded on
- DavidL.Jones Recorded by
Species information
- Orcus bilunulatus Scientific name
- Ladybird beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 863.4m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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