Palaestra bipartita

3 Meloidae Beetle, Blister Beetle at Wingello, NSW

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Identification history

Palaestra bipartita	31 Jan 2023	michaelb
Australozonitis bizonata	16 Jan 2023	michaelb
Australozonitis bizonata	12 Jan 2023	GlossyGal

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Significant sighting

michaelb noted:

31 Jan 2023

There are no sightings of this species on ALA at this time, so a good find.

User's notes

Australozonitis bizonata

9 comments

RogerF wrote:

12 Jan 2023

A great find. Roger

GlossyGal wrote:

12 Jan 2023

Thank you Roger. I'm not sure which one of us actually found it ☺️

michaelb wrote:

16 Jan 2023

It doesn't look like Australozonitis bizonata .. see:
https://panama.inaturalist.org/taxa/1043550-Australozonitis-bizonata and https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/6ba38679-4085-42ce-9465-b1ffbceaa138#

RogerF wrote:

16 Jan 2023

It was identified by Federico Turco at the National Insect Collection whose speciality is Meloidae. Its more likely that the i-naturalist identification is incorrect.

michaelb wrote:

16 Jan 2023

Thanks Roger

michaelb wrote:

16 Jan 2023

I feel uneasy about confirming this as Australozonitis bizonata since the ALA images are also different:- https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/6ba38679-4085-42ce-9465-b1ffbceaa138

RogerF wrote:

16 Jan 2023

I suggest you contact for confirmation Federico. federica.turco@csiro.au.

It is equally likely that ALA is out of date

michaelb wrote:

31 Jan 2023

I contacted Federica Turco. Re-ID'd by her as Palaestra bipartita.

RogerF wrote:

14 Mar 2024

Thanks for that. I received an apology from Fed about her original misidentification.

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