Green Scarab Beetle at Paddys River, ACT
Identification history
| Diphucephala sp. (genus) | 29 Nov 2016 | RogerF | ||
| Diphucephala sp. (genus) | 23 Nov 2016 | MichaelBedingfield |
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User's notes
Size - length 5 & 6 mm, males & females in breeding mood; in a weeping willow tree on the western side of the Murrumbidgee River, north of Tharwa. Also seen in Acacia dealbata a few hundred metres away.
2 comments
KimPullen
wrote:
28 Dec 2016
Hi Michael. It would be interesting to know if they were actually feeding (not just resting) on the willow.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
1 Jan 2017
Hi Kim. From memory, I don't think they were feeding. They were more interested in breeding and there were lots of couples.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.064022-35.498640
- Altitude 593.7m
- Places Paddys River, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 19 Nov 2016 11:01 PM Recorded on
- MichaelBedingfield Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) MichaelBedingfield Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Breeding behaviour Breeding behaviour
- Mixed Gender
Species information
- Diphucephala sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Green Scarab Beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 2110.49m Recorded at altitude
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