Green-tailed Christmas beetle at The Pinnacle
Identification history
| Anoplognathus brunnipennis | 5 Dec 2023 | HaukeKoch | ||
| Anoplognathus pallidicollis | 11 Feb 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Anoplognathus pallidicollis | 12 Jan 2019 | RogerF | ||
| Anoplognathus sp. (genus) | 11 Jan 2019 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
Found this dead one but another live one flew past me. No doubt a few more live ones in the tree above.
1 comment
HaukeKoch
wrote:
5 Dec 2023
Unlikely to be A. pallidicollis because of the metallic sheen on the pronotum. Likely A. brunnipennis (=formerly A. chloropyrus).
Location information
- Coordinates 149.031920-35.251883
- Altitude 685.5m
- Maps The Pinnacle
- Places Hawker, ACT
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 11 Jan 2019 01:11 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
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Collections
Christmas beetles Insects Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) AlisonMilton Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
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
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Anoplognathus chloropyrus
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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