Tea-tree button beetle at Holt, ACT
Identification history
| Paropsis pictipennis | 15 Mar 2023 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Unidentified | 15 Mar 2023 | Cristy1676 |
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User's notes
Found this little one on grass out the back of Canberra. Looks quite metalic in real life and not picked up on camera well. Almost shimmering. This was the only one i sighted. Some kind of Eucalyptus leaf beetle maybe?
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.992124-35.231406
- Places Holt, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 15 Mar 2023 12:09 PM Recorded on
- Cristy1676 Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Cristy1676 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Grass Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Paropsis pictipennis Scientific name
- Tea-tree button beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 979.3m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Synonyms
Procris pictipennis
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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