Anoplognathus brunnipennis
Green-tailed Christmas beetle at Point Hut to Tharwa
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| Anoplognathus brunnipennis | HaukeKoch | 12 Jan 2024 | |
| Anoplognathus brunnipennis | MichaelMulvaney | 10 Sep 2017 | |
| Anoplognathus brunnipennis | MichaelBedingfield | 26 Jun 2017 |
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User's notes
On the western side of the Murrumbidgee River, north of Tharwa.
3 comments
10 Jan 2024
I think this is a mix of A. brunnipennis and A. hirsutus (= now A. explanatus). In the first image, the top two are A. hirsutus and the bottom one is A. brunnipennis. Second image is A. brunnipennis; third and fourth A. hirsutus. A brunnipennis does not have the white setae on the pronotum and face. I've seen both species together twice myself now in aggregations.
12 Jan 2024
I've removed the images for A. hirsutus. and submitted a new sighting - Anoplognathus explanatus (Hirsute Christmas beetle)
Location information
- Coordinates 149.067741-35.505301
- Altitude 579.0m
- Maps Point Hut to Tharwa
- Places Tharwa, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 7 Jan 2017 07:54 PM Recorded on
- MichaelBedingfield Recorded by
- Eucalyptus blakelyi Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Mixed Gender
- Breeding behaviour Breeding behaviour
Collections
- MichaelBedingfield Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Anoplognathus brunnipennis Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Insects
Species information
- Anoplognathus brunnipennis Scientific name
- Green-tailed Christmas beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1031m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Anoplognathus chloropyrus
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