Onitis aygulus at Ainslie, ACT

Aygulus dung beetle at Ainslie, ACT

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Identification history

	Onitis aygulus	26 Mar 2020	KimPullen
	Onitis alexis	12 Jan 2020	jbromilow50

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Looks a lot like the Bronze Dung Beetle, Onitis alexis?

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KimPullen wrote:

27 Mar 2020

Onitis alexis and O. aygulus are similar. I think this one is O. aygulus, based on the position of the clypeal ridge (lying across the spade-shaped front of the head) being nearer to the front of the head than to the frontal ridge (lying across the head in front of the eyes). The other character separating the two species is the shape of the spur on the hind femur of the male, but that is not visible in these shots.

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