Darkling beetle at Guerilla Bay, NSW
Identification history
| Tetragonomenes ruficornis | 24 Sep 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Tetragonomenes ruficornis | 24 Sep 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Unverified | 6 Aug 2020 | jb2602 |
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User's notes
Maybe Amarygmus or Titaena? P 178, 179 Beetles of Australia
3 comments
KimPullen
wrote:
9 Aug 2020
John, these are Tenebrionidae, but I think they are two different species. Can you separate them?
jb2602
wrote:
12 Aug 2020
The second photo is now https://budawangcoast.naturemapr.org/Sightings/4324206
KimPullen
wrote:
24 Sep 2020
There is a chance that this is T. aeneus, rather than T. ruficornis. But since T. aeneus was at one time considered simply a 'variety' of T. ruficornis, and since ruficornis is the older name, I will call it ruficornis. An image of the holotype of 'Daedrosis rufipes', a synonym of Tetragonomenes ruficornis, appears in the entry for ruficornis in ALA, and it looks very like this sighting.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.232165-35.832691
- Places Guerilla Bay, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 31 Jul 2020 09:45 PM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Beetles (Coleoptera) Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) jb2602 South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Tetragonomenes ruficornis Scientific name
- Darkling beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Machine learning
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