1 A predaceous diving beetle at Melba, ACT
Identification history
| Rhantus suturalis | 5 Jan 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 12 Dec 2020 | kasiaaus |
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4 comments
kasiaaus
wrote:
12 Dec 2020
Maybe it is a cockroach but it looked like a water beetle to me. I'm clearly not very good at this.
Bron
wrote:
17 Dec 2020
Hi Kat I suspect Rhantus suturalis? Here March 2017, here's the ALA link... https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:7f6caf7f-6f8d-4291-90e1-69edc735038d
Location information
- Coordinates 149.049885-35.208648
- Altitude 554.7m
- Places Melba, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 16 Nov 2020 09:46 PM Recorded on
- kasiaaus Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Beetles (Coleoptera) Water beetles (several families) kasiaaus Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Rhantus suturalis Scientific name
- A predaceous diving beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Cosmopolitan
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 759.13m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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