1 Green-footed Christmas beetle at Port Macquarie, NSW
Identification history
| Anoplognathus viriditarsis | 9 Jan 2024 | HaukeKoch | ||
| Anoplognathus viriditarsis | 9 Jan 2024 | HaukeKoch | ||
| Anoplognathus sp. (genus) | 9 Jan 2024 | HelenCross | ||
| Unidentified | 9 Jan 2024 | Katbirfdsnaps |
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User's notes
Christmas beetle found dead on Lighthouse beach Port Macquarie. It had tiny barnacle shells growing on left side.
1 comment
HaukeKoch
wrote:
9 Jan 2024
Female. Good you got a shot of the underside; this species is otherwise quite similar to A. montanus, but doesn't have the continuous bands of white setae across the abdominal segments on the underside.
Location information
- Coordinates 152.931050-31.477710
- Places Port Macquarie, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 31 Dec 2023 05:56 PM Recorded on
- Katbirfdsnaps Recorded by
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Collections
Christmas beetles Insects Beetles (Coleoptera) Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Katbirfdsnaps New South Wales North Coast NatureMapr
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Deceased Animal health
Species information
- Anoplognathus viriditarsis Scientific name
- Green-footed Christmas beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 706m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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