Castiarina maculicollis at Sth Tablelands Ecosystem Park

Black spot jewel beetle at Sth Tablelands Ecosystem Park

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Identification history

Castiarina maculicollis	11 Feb 2017	KimPullen
Castiarina maculicollis	9 Feb 2017	RogerF
Unidentified	9 Feb 2017	galah681

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4 comments

RogerF wrote:

10 Feb 2017

Aboreal cockroach mimic

KimPullen wrote:

10 Feb 2017

Certainly looks like C. maculicollis as figured in Barker. But its range is given as SE Qld only! I'll check with Allen Sundholm - he knows them.

KimPullen wrote:

11 Feb 2017

Identification confirmed by Allen Sundholm of Sydney.

Harrisi wrote:

20 Jan 2021

Passing on some follow up info from Allen Sundholm from today ............" I can now advise that I consider that the record of Castiarina maculicollis in Canberra a few years ago is a valid record. There was some doubt at the time as it had never been recorded in NSW before, only in SE QLD. Perhaps an accidental introduction. However, a friend of mine got one high up on a flowering Angophora near Mendooran (north east of Dubbo) last week. So the Canberra record now sounds very convincing, not an introduction.

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