Golden stag beetle at Flynn, ACT
Identification history
| Lamprima aurata | 25 Nov 2017 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Lamprima aurata | 20 Nov 2017 | KimPullen | ||
| Unidentified | 23 Oct 2017 | Christine |
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User's notes
Flew in, landed and disappeared down into the plants possibly into the ground.
1 comment
KimPullen
wrote:
21 Nov 2017
Hard to make it out, but the colour and appearance, as well as the behaviour you mentioned, suggest a female 'golden' stag beetle, a species in which only some of the males are actually golden.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.041257-35.209713
- Places Flynn, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 12 Mar 2011 11:25 AM Recorded on
- Christine Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Beetles (Coleoptera) Stag beetles (Lucanidae) Christine Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Lamprima aurata Scientific name
- Golden stag beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1098.93m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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