Tetragonomenes ruficornis at Guerilla Bay, NSW

Tetragonomenes ruficornis

Darkling beetle at Guerilla Bay, NSW

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Identification history

Tetragonomenes ruficornis	24 Sep 2020	KimPullen
Tetragonomenes ruficornis	24 Sep 2020	KimPullen
Unidentified	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.

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