Pie-dish beetle at Gungahlin, ACT
Identification history
| Helea ovata | 21 Dec 2016 | KimPullen | ||
| Helea ovata | 21 Dec 2016 | KimPullen | ||
| Tenebrionidae (family) | 21 Dec 2016 | CedricBear |
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1 comment
KimPullen
wrote:
22 Dec 2016
The red creatures clustered on its back appear to be mites; if so, they are probably phoretic (hitch-hikers) and not parasites.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.161925-35.156855
- Altitude 672.0m
- Maps Mulligans Flat
- Places Gungahlin, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Dec 2016 09:22 AM Recorded on
- CedricBear Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) CedricBear Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Helea ovata Scientific name
- Pie-dish beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 812.6m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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