Long-nosed Lycid (Net-winged) beetle at Bungendore, NSW
Identification history
| Porrostoma rhipidium | 4 Jan 2025 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Porrostoma rhipidium | 3 Jan 2025 | RogerF | ||
| Eroschema poweri | 3 Jan 2025 | clarehoneydove |
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4 comments
RogerF
wrote:
3 Jan 2025
NB the long ‘nose’ with terminal mouth parts. The eroschema has ‘normal’ beetle mouthparts.
RogerF
wrote:
Yesterday
Lycids are quite distasteful to would be predators so being a mimic helps survival see my book
clarehoneydove
wrote:
Yesterday
Yes I saw you called them distasteful and in my head I thought "Roger doesn't like them" like an idiot.
Location information
- Places Bungendore, NSW
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 3 Jan 2025 04:14 PM Recorded on
- clarehoneydove Recorded by
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Additional information
- Tea tree Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Mating Breeding behaviour
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Porrostoma rhipidium Scientific name
- Long-nosed Lycid (Net-winged) beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1212.8m Recorded at altitude
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