Rove beetle at Higgins, ACT
Identification history
| Staphylinidae (family) | 22 Jun 2023 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Staphylinidae (family) | 22 Jun 2020 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Embioptera sp. (order) | 18 Feb 2020 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Unidentified | 4 Jan 2020 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
Identification suggested by Al Newton, possibly Xantholinini. It was on rocks at the edge of my fish pond.
5 comments
RogerF
wrote:
15 Jun 2020
Embioptera or web spinners, a small order of insects living under stones etc.
Category Other insect orders
Category Other insect orders
CathB
wrote:
16 Jun 2020
This doesn't seem to have the expanded tarsi on the front legs that house the silk glands of webspinners.
RogerF
wrote:
16 Jun 2020
Hi Cath, You are right and anyway it is too large. Could be a beetle larva but its not like anything I know
RogerF
wrote:
18 Jun 2020
Alison, can you send me full size images of this insect please for further investigation. Thanks Roger
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.029422-35.238102
- Altitude 629.7m
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 28 Dec 2019 08:42 AM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
Species information
- Staphylinidae (family) Scientific name
- Rove beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1239.3m Recorded at altitude
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