Hamadryas leaf beetle at GG202
Identification history
| Peltoschema hamadryas | 24 May 2024 | KimberiRP | ||
| Unidentified | 24 May 2024 | LisaH |
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User's notes
Apologies for quality of photos. I'm intrigued as to what this is?
2 comments
KimberiRP
wrote:
24 May 2024
Peltoschema hamadryas usually has predominantly yellow elytra, with black spots. This dark variant is much less common.
AlisonMilton
wrote:
25 May 2024
@KimberiRP Kim, There were quite a few of the black ones mixed with the more common, at the back of Hawker College last year.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.103679-35.327082
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Deakin, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 24 May 2024 12:46 PM Recorded on
- LisaH Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) LisaH Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Wattle Associated Insect
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Peltoschema hamadryas Scientific name
- Hamadryas leaf beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 675.64m 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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