Comb-clawed beetle at Kambah, ACT
Identification history
| Pemanoa sp. (genus) | 27 Sep 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Atoichus bicolor | 19 Sep 2020 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Atoichus bicolor | 17 Sep 2020 | HarveyPerkins |
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Length ca 6-7 mm.
2 comments
HarveyPerkins
wrote:
28 Sep 2020
Thanks, Kim. What are we looking at here to differentiate from Atoichus? Appears that Pemanoa may have been split from Atoichus at some point?
KimPullen
wrote:
3 Oct 2020
It's quite confusing, Harvey. Atoichus was erected in 1915, and the type species is A. bicolor, which has exactly the size and colouring of this sighting if material in the ANIC is correctly identified. But your sighting keys out to Pemanoa (a 1955 genus) in Matthews & Bouchard's 'Tenebrionid beetles of Australia...' (2008), as follows: 'Head abruptly constricted basally, forming distinct neck; antennomeres subtriangular... : Atoichus; Head gradually and only slightly narrowing basally; antennomeres more elongate... : Pemanoa'. Pretty slim differences I reckon, and the ANIC material doesn't easily fall into one or the other in many cases.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.036973-35.393848
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 17 Sep 2020 12:47 PM Recorded on
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Insects Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) HarveyPerkins
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Pemanoa sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Comb-clawed beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
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