3 a jewel beetle at suppressed
Identification history
| Temognatha rufocyanea | 19 Jan 2025 | Harrisi |
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3 comments
Harrisi
wrote:
19 Jan 2025
Indeed Kim, I watched it go about its 'business' for minutes, took some shots then walked away smiling....
entom2
wrote:
5 Nov 2025
The adult host plant is Leptospermum polygalifolium polygalifolium, and at least as regards that particular plant it was photographed on is in peak bloom (which is also important to record), and the concatenated locality is probably best described as 'Oallen Ford, 2.46 km N of Oallen' (distance measured using Google Earth which plots the exact location of Oallen, and measures the distance and 16-point compass direction therefrom using the Vincenty formula). A very interesting locality as Stuart's observations at this site of the previous day and today adds a useful intra-range location between the recent sighting near Borough and its haunts to the NE. Cheers, Allen M. Sundholm OAM.
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- Harrisi Recorded by
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Harrisi NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Jewel beetles (Buprestidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Insects Temognatha rufocyanea
Additional information
- Leptospermum sp. Associated plant
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- True Insect on a flower
Species information
- Temognatha rufocyanea Scientific name
- a jewel beetle Common name
- Sensitive
- Very rare / threatened
- Non-invasive or negligible
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- 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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