Chalcopteroides cupripennis

Rainbow darkling beetle at Michelago, NSW

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Location information

• Coordinates 149.156919-35.780274
• Altitude 798.2m
• Maps Illilanga & Baroona
• Places Michelago, NSW

Sighting information

• 2 Abundance
• 27 Dec 2020 10:36 AM Recorded on
• Illilanga Recorded by

• Collections

  Insects Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Illilanga Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

• Allocasuarina verticillata Associated plant
• 12mm to 25mm Animal size

Species information

• Chalcopteroides cupripennis Scientific name
• Rainbow darkling beetle Common name
• Not Sensitive
• Local native
• Non-invasive or negligible
• Up to 986m Recorded at altitude
• Machine learning
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