Cashew beetle at Black Range, NSW
Identification history
| Anoplognathus pallidicollis | 29 May 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Anoplognathus pallidicollis | 29 May 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| SCARABAEIDAE | 13 May 2020 | AndrewMcCutcheon |
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User's notes
Cannot identify this Christmas Beetle attracted to our outside light.
3 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
30 May 2020
Hi Andrew, I see Kim ID'd this one OK, but I recall from a holiday job I once had at CSIRO sorting and counting Xmas beetles from the light trap in Canberra that a view of their back end is helpful. The colour and hairiness of the bit that protrudes past the wing cases on the upper surface (tip of abdomen I guess) is useful. Just for future reference. Jackie
AndrewMcCutcheon
wrote:
30 May 2020
Hi Jackie, thanks for that advice. It appears from other comments on terrestrial invertebrates I need to get closer (if possible) with my camera to the subject and take it from both ends, and the side. I took only three shots of the Xmas beetle. Here is the third heavily cropped, which hopefully shows a little more of what you may be looking for.
JackieMiles
wrote:
30 May 2020
Not really - other side up would have been the go, as in the 2nd and 3rd photos in this sighting of ours: https://atlasoflife.naturemapr.org/Sightings/3368950. But yeah in general, the closer the better and the more angles the better!
Location information
- Coordinates 149.844802-36.734816
- Places Black Range, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 29 Dec 2019 09:39 PM Recorded on
- AndrewMcCutcheon Recorded by
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Collections
Christmas beetles Insects Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) AndrewMcCutcheon
Species information
- Anoplognathus pallidicollis Scientific name
- Cashew beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 764.4m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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