Castiarina thomsoni

A jewel beetle at Cotter River, ACT

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Identification history

	Castiarina thomsoni	4 Dec 2019	KimPullen
	Castiarina thomsoni	30 Nov 2019	Harrisi

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3 comments

MichaelBedingfield wrote:

30 Nov 2019

Hi Stuart
Given the big difference in colour, it is a bit hard to confirm this one until you make the genitalia check under microscope..........

KimPullen wrote:

5 Dec 2019

I've ventured to confirm this as C. thomsoni after looking at a whole drawer full of that species in the ANIC. As Stuart says, the beetle on the left in the 2nd pic is C. australasiae.

Harrisi wrote:

5 Dec 2019

Good call Kim, Allen was adamant also. In my relative naivety I thought i'd encountered a new one and was disappointed it wasn't, but hey, one soon learns that 'It is what it is'. Luckily, last year in my first season I encountered numerous variations of T. variabilis and the gross variations are both in patterning and colour!

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