Passalid or Bess Beetle at Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Passalidae (family) | 25 Feb 2021 | KimPullen | ||
| Panesthia australis | 7 Dec 2020 | Illilanga | ||
| Unidentified | 6 Dec 2020 | JackyF |
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User's notes
Sorry about photo quality. Deep down in large hollow gum log. About 3 cm? Probably a cockroach but it had a very strange head.
2 comments
Illilanga
wrote:
7 Dec 2020
Thanks Jacky. It looks like a Panesthia australis. Th size and shape look about right but as you say the head is a bit odd. I will let Kim check and confirm.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.103595-35.328168
- Maps Federal Golf Course
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 6 Dec 2020 11:40 AM Recorded on
- JackyF Recorded by
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Illilanga flagged sightings Insects Other beetles Beetles (Coleoptera) JackyF Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Passalidae (family) Scientific name
- Passalid or Bess Beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 712.8m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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