Unidentified Christmas beetle at Kinghorne, NSW
Identification history
| Anoplognathus sp. (genus) | 3 Jan 2025 | HaukeKoch | ||
| SCARABAEIDAE | 21 Dec 2020 | Harrisi | ||
| Unidentified | 21 Dec 2020 | Christine |
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User's notes
Dead and upside-down on the beach was this beautifully coloured and very large Beetle. Christmas Beetle?? At least 3cm long.
1 comment
KimPullen
wrote:
22 Dec 2020
Probably Anoplognathus viriditarsis. It's a bit discoloured, probably a result of being dead and soaked in seawater.
Location information
- Coordinates 150.774597-34.950307
- Maps Jervis Bay National Park
- Places Kinghorne, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 20 Dec 2020 10:07 AM Recorded on
- Christine Recorded by
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Collections
Christine Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Insects South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Anoplognathus sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Unidentified Christmas beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1369m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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