2 Carrion Beetle at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Ptomaphila lacrymosa | 29 Dec 2020 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Ptomaphila lacrymosa | 24 Dec 2020 | trevorpreston | ||
| Unidentified | 19 Dec 2020 | MattFox |
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User's notes
Several of these beetles inside the carcass of an Eastern Water Dragon, eating the rotting remains of the insides. Not the most pleasant thing to photograph!
3 comments
trevorpreston
wrote:
24 Dec 2020
I'm suggesting this could be Ptomaphila lacrymosa, Carrion beetle
Arbanitis horsemanae
https://www.carolynyoung.com.au/carrion-insects#4
Arbanitis horsemanae
https://www.carolynyoung.com.au/carrion-insects#4
MattFox
wrote:
25 Dec 2020
Cheers Trevor! Being a new species certainly makes the awful smell and visual of the dead dragon worth it!
Location information
- Coordinates 149.108637-35.273101
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 5 Abundance
- 17 Dec 2020 09:38 AM Recorded on
- MattFox Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Other beetles Beetles (Coleoptera) MattFox Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Species information
- Ptomaphila lacrymosa Scientific name
- Carrion Beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1307.81m 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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