Pie-dish beetle at Red Hill, ACT
Identification history
| Helea ovata | 21 Jun 2017 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Helea ovata | 4 Jun 2017 | roymcd |
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User's notes
Do these guys have a noxious flavour? I once saw a trapdoor spider grab one and then just as quickly release it and let it go.
2 comments
KimPullen
wrote:
1 Jul 2017
Most Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) have glands in the rear end that discharge defensive chemicals. That probably explains why the spider had second thoughts.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.121007-35.336460
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Red Hill, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 22 Jan 2017 08:35 AM Recorded on
- roymcd Recorded by
Species information
- Helea ovata Scientific name
- Pie-dish beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 812.6m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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