Green-tailed Christmas beetle at Point Hut to Tharwa
Identification history
| Anoplognathus brunnipennis | 12 Jan 2024 | HaukeKoch | ||
| Anoplognathus brunnipennis | 10 Sep 2017 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Anoplognathus brunnipennis | 26 Jun 2017 | MichaelBedingfield |
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User's notes
On the western side of the Murrumbidgee River, north of Tharwa.
3 comments
HaukeKoch
wrote:
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.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
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
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Collections
Christmas beetles MichaelBedingfield Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Anoplognathus brunnipennis Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Insects
Additional information
- Eucalyptus blakelyi Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Mixed Gender
- Breeding behaviour Breeding behaviour
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
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Anoplognathus chloropyrus
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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