Tenebrionidae (family)

Darkling beetle at Ainslie, ACT

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Identification history

Tenebrionidae (family)	10 Apr 2018	MichaelBedingfield
Tenebrionidae (family)	10 Apr 2018	MichaelBedingfield
Tenebrionidae (Family) false wireworm	9 Apr 2018	RogerF
Pterohelaeus sp. (genus)	9 Apr 2018	jb2602

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User's notes

Is it an Eastern False Wireworm? Pterohelaeus sp

4 comments

RogerF wrote:

10 Apr 2018

There are a number of genera of false wireworms in the Tenebrionidae. Unless there are identifiable adults present with their larvae it is difficult to be sure of their identity

MichaelBedingfield wrote:

10 Apr 2018

Hi John. Thanks for your photos. I have downloaded the original photo no. 3, doctored it, and added it back, so it can to be used on the Species page.
https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Species/21302
FYI, our system doesn't show the originals but edits them to a lower resolution. This is for the purpose of efficiency. In the process photos that are a non-standard shape (4x3) can be truncated on the longer ends. This is something to keep in mind when cropping you photos.

jb2602 wrote:

10 Apr 2018

I was wondering about that Michael. They were cropped long to try and load up the best resolution, how do you add blank space to a photo?

MichaelBedingfield wrote:

10 Apr 2018

What I did was use cut and paste, the original no. 3 onto the visible no. 3. If you look carefully you can see this.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.152107 -35.259199
Places Ainslie, ACT

Sighting information

3 Abundance
8 Apr 2018 11:07 AM Recorded on
jb2602 Recorded by
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Insects Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) jb2602

Species information

Tenebrionidae (family) Scientific name
Darkling beetle Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1437.48m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning
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