Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae)
Find out more about Anoplognathus species Christmas Beetles on the Australian Museum website: https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/entomology/christmas-beetles/ or view all the Christmas Beetle records on NatueMapr in this Collection: https://naturemapr.org/collections/sightings/11178
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HaukeKoch
wrote:
9 hrs ago
Nice. The pair in the front of the first image is A. hirsutus/explanatus
Anoplognathus brunnipennis
HaukeKoch
wrote:
13 Dec 2025
The surface in A. pallidicollis is covered in short, white setae, in A. porosus the setae are only along the sides and through the midline.
Anoplognathus pallidicollis
HaukeKoch
wrote:
11 Dec 2025
Wow, just found this. It looks like you caught an undescribed pyrgotid fly in the act of approaching Neorrhina punctatum. This appears to be the same fly I have reared from this host: (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/253727914) and is to my knowledge the first picture showing the fly in the wild and together with its host.
Neorrhina punctatum
Significant sightings
- Chlorobapta bestii at Oallen, NSW
- Paraschizognathus elgatus at Falls Creek, VIC
- Chondropyga olliffiana
- Chondropyga olliffiana at Wingecarribee Local Government Area
- Anoplognathus porosus at Mount Ainslie
- Chlorobapta frontalis at Kambah, ACT
- Chlorobapta frontalis at Hawker, ACT
- Liparetrus discipennis at O'Connor, ACT
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