Atalanta button beetle at Wyanbene, NSW
Identification history
| Paropsisterna atalanta | 23 Oct 2024 | martinl | ||
| Paropsisterna atalanta | 22 Oct 2024 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Unidentified | 22 Oct 2024 | Harrisi |
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5 comments
martinl
wrote:
22 Oct 2024
This is Paropsisterna atalanta. Possibly the first record of this alpine beetle on this site.
Harrisi
wrote:
22 Oct 2024
thanks for the prompt ID Martin. I would have visited this site about ten times in the past six years and had not encountered it before.
martinl
wrote:
22 Oct 2024
Check the gallery on inaturalist. Sightings will be skewed for Victoria as most observations are mine. They have quite diverse color patterns. They are not uncommon in montane Victoria and well into NSW. Allied to P. lignea, they share the diagnostic feature of coarse interstitial puncturation and (unexpectedly for the 'Chrysophtharta' intra-genus) setose larvae.
AlisonMilton
wrote:
22 Oct 2024
@martinl @Harrisi Hi Martin. There is already one record of this species verified by Kim Pullen. Can you confirm that this is also the same species. Paropsisterna atalanta (Atalanta button beetle)
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.663463-35.777376
- Places Wyanbene, NSW
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 20 Oct 2024 01:51 PM Recorded on
- Harrisi Recorded by
Additional information
- Allocasuarina nana Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Paropsisterna atalanta Scientific name
- Atalanta button beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 638.1m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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